We all know Facebook is gathering data on users, but this is surveillance on a truly chilling scale. From the article:
Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’ data listing over 7,000 companies providing their data.
Even the most fevered conspiracy nuts of the last century could not have conceived of surveillance on this scale.
Facebook and other Meta properties are required in my creative work, but it is long past the time for artists to seriously consider alternatives.
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C.B. Crenshaw 