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I think people genuinely don't realize how invasive the data gathered is. If they knew what engineers and admins can see, they'd be floored


Totally, I think there are lots of assumptions of its just the data they explicitly put into the system, eg: "likes", "comments", "photos", but not the darker side of correlating activity across sites, interests, building profiles of you, selling your history, etc.




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