No Facebook account and I did not consent to them trawling through my life.

"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."

schneier.com/blog/archives/202

@b4cks4w

We COULD open more communication channels, but

the question is why?

These new channels would immediately get filled with companies confirming a person's only reason for being is consumption.

Seems to me, I remember something about peeps dying from consumption.

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@Madken65 To clarify I'm not suggesting we need more channels. I'm only saying I specifically don't want Facebook, Inc. hoovering up my behavioral data from 3rd parties without my consent. E.g. I've used that TaxAct and never agreed to them sending my info to FB -- but they did.
In 1999 the FCC ruled that this stuff could be opt-out. IMO it's as bad as Citizen's United for democracy.

@b4cks4w @Madken65
But you gave consent when you signed up. I don't think you can opt out effectively-- you're in or you're off Facebook.
Facebook's network of third parties is impressive

@b4cks4w @Madken65
Just read the original post
You've never had an account with ANY Meta site?

@BrentSullivan @Madken65 I had a Facebook account for about a month in 2002-ish? to see what the fuss was about. Their rollercoaster privacy policy changes even then put me off. Same for Twitter (later), deleted. Never instagram, threads, whatsapp.

This is not complicated for me. I'm an irc fella.
w3.org/wiki/IRC

@b4cks4w @Madken65
Usenet, irc, and gopher
What more do you really need? 😆

@BrentSullivan @b4cks4w @Madken65

it ain't just facebook that buys our data from data brokers almost all big companies are buying our data as well as government agencies worldwide

NSA for one who admitted that they did buy data from data brokers only recently

until it becomes illegal for data brokers to even collect data never mind sell it it's gonna happen

@BrentSullivan @ecksmc @Madken65 The problem with opting out of Axciom is they start the process by asking for _more_ information "to verify" your identity. Their record of me is inaccurate and I've left it that way.

@b4cks4w @Madken65

I read EULAs (worked in alliances for CPQ, BMC, Opalis, MSFT, and VMware)
If tax act is like a lot of them, there's a blanket clause covering their use of Meta code. It would not be explicit.

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