Facebook Is Using You

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This article is a must read!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is-using-you.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me


LAST week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion. But unlike other big-ticket corporations, it doesn?t have an inventory of widgets or gadgets, cars or phones. Facebook?s inventory consists of personal data ? yours and mine.

We need a do-not-track law, similar to the do-not-call one. Now it?s not just about whether my dinner will be interrupted by a telemarketer. It?s about whether my dreams will be dashed by the collection of bits and bytes over which I have no control and for which companies are currently unaccountable.