TMI = Too Much Information | Who Gets It? Who Wants It? [tell Facebook almost everything there is to know]

The reason Mark Zuckerberg is a billionaire - and you're not - is that, as you blithely share your likes and dislikes with family and friends, you tell Facebook almost everything there is to know.
OPINION | NIALL FERGUSON
May 16, 2016
Welcome to 1984
We thought it was Big Brother we had to worry about. It turned out to be Big Data.

 . . . The state wants data. What you earn. What you spend. But what the state knows about you is just a fraction of what Facebook knows about you. The reason Mark Zuckerberg is a billionaire is that, as you blithely share your likes and dislikes with family and friends, you tell Facebook almost everything there is to know. Advertisers will pay Facebook vast sums for that information. But do you really think advertisers are the only people who want Facebook’s data? (Fact: Facebook was one of the Internet companies that participated in the US National Security Agency’s PRISM surveillance program.). . . "
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