@nilss Thank you for sharing these links.
The ugly truth is that tech companies ARE tracking and misusing our data & unless we are proactive about protecting our data, they will find ways to circumvent most barriers that are set up to protect us.
About a month ago, I posted a thread about Google using deceptive tracking practices & how they are now being sued over it.
I also posted a thread to an article about Google sharing info with the Police.
The bottom line is, our data is a commodity for BIG TECH. Exploiting data to manipulate & monetize human behavior has always been the end goal. It’s literally how they make their money.
Then. when we start to guard our privacy, BIG TECH claims to come up with ways to ‘help’ us with all sorts of different privacy settings. The only thing that does, it shut out some other tech companies from getting their hands on our data- but the ones who implement the privacy settings still have access to it.
In a way, it gives them a leg up on the competition.