I agree with this.
In fact, what information being collected should be answered as well.
I donāt know how I can be more specific than this:
Then this weirdness:
Michele, what are you on about? State what you want to know and Iāll tell you.
I canāt make myself clearer.
What is thinki talking about here?
That is Nico talking about things he doesnāt understand, as usual. As you pointed out in your initial response to him, every site on the Internet runs on a server. Some data is stored or you wouldnāt be able to sign in. The question isnāt whether data is stored, it is what data is stored and how is it being used? Iāve answered very specifically what data is stored and how it is used on BBAD.
Now that Iāve answered factually, I will give some non-factual opinion. The fear isnāt that data is stored. No site could function without storing data. No site could let you log in without storing at least a username and password about you. The fear is that data youāre not aware of is being collected and used in a nefarious manner. Examples of this would be Facebookās practice of carefully calculating how long you look at each image, and assigning AI to assess that image and create a profile of what kind of images move you. They then use that information to present you images that guide you in the directions they want you to go, usually advertiser driven.
A very specific example of this is that FB sees me looking at photos of watches and knives, and they see I click on those quite a lot. Now, I find 90% of the FB ads I see are of watches and knives, and 90% of the FB recommendations I get for groups and pages are of watches and knives.
Now, watches and knives, and even ads for watches and knives arenāt very nefarious, but the power this represents absolutely IS nefarious. If FB wanted to make me hate Biden or Trump, all they would have to do is do an AI analysis on the types of articles that move me (which in my case would be very empircal articles of an investigative nature) and present me articles that their AI matched to that description which were critical of Biden or Trump (whoever they wanted me to hate). They could, quite literally, change the result of the US election as they please. They could chip away at me over months and show me people sharing those articles until I caved and hated the person on their hit list.
Right now, we donāt have any evidence that they do that for political purposes, but perhaps even worse, they sell this capability to the highest bidder using FB ads. Putin can buy FB ads and do exactly what I described above. So can Sheldon Adelson, the Koch brothers and Michael Bloomberg. The US election is now simply an auction item sold to the highest bidder and FB, Google and Twitter are the sellers.
Anyway, that is what data harvesting is. That is we need to fear, not BBAD storing your username and password.
Is thinki talking about names and passwords? I didnāt get that impression.
That is nefarious, if you had no plan to go where they lead.
Nico only mentioned this information below. Iāve addressed each.
Regarding whether Iād give up the tiny amount of information I have about you, I answered that months ago.
Weāve been Facebook friends for years, Michele, which gives you access to everything Iāve posted on that site. If someone offered you a million dollars, would you give them all the information Iāve posted on Facebook?
No. Itās not mine to sell.
I like to think I wouldnāt sell someone elseās information, either. Iām pretty rational, though. While Iām very comfortable right now, I have experienced crushing debt in the past. Iām glad nobody offered me a million dollars to do anything unethical back then. Iām pretty sure I wouldāve failed that test.
Ummm, I respectfully request you delete all my posts.
You do it. Iām not your employee.
lol. Do you have any idea how long that would take? Donāt you have a switch you can flip and delete everything on a user?
I donāt know and donāt care to look. If you seriously think that everything you have done on the net hasnāt been scraped and stored by government, from here to FB to TikTok to OAN to Infowars, you havenāt been paying attention. They already HAVE all this. Deleting it all now doesnāt delete their archive.
Edited to add: They also read all your email and private messages on Twitter.
Iām not as worried about them as as I am about enemies I may have here.
Your enemies here (which I do not know about, unless youāre talking about Will who is harmless as far as I can see), have had the ability to store every public thing youāve done for the last 25 years.
Just relax and be acutely aware that big brother is watching you. Heās watching all of us.
We have not had privacy for years now. Surprised to learn you consider me an enemy and that I would try to use your babbling nonsense against you.
I thought falun gong was organ harvesting and when I looked it up I saw pictures of people meditating. I donāt know if they struck a gong and then harvested the organs.
I just remember finding pamphlets and leaflets.
Youād figure they would be desperate to harvest data after that.
People are always desperate for more data and sense of self validation. It is an uncontrollable and exploitable fear.