Many people advocate for concealing your data as much as possible on social media. Hackers and data mining companies can create a virtual you based on your usage of social media. What else can our social media data be used for?
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The big privacy advocates, in my opinion, do way more harm than good. Look for a response to your question here that is actually both likely, significantly harmful, and that is actually a result of data collection by companies like Google and Facebook. I’m willing to bet there isn’t one.
People who get squeamish about being “tracked” often won’t think twice about using a spell checker, or entering their home address on an application for something. It makes no sense.
And meanwhile there is so much harm done by this nonsense quest to avoid minor and imaginary harms. When we take away the data, we end up with less powerful tools, in the midst of an AI revolution. The possible benefits to public health alone are enormous, but utterly hamstrung by an illogical fear that has barely any plausible or coherent worst case scenarios.
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