[safetyscissors]

Its also not a good thing that we don't know who Facebook or Google is selling this or giving this information to. The advertising agencies, meh kinda. The organisations with acronyms, they are more worrisome. I also wonder, to what extent the amount of information they have about the average user.

[Xavi]

BTW, Google seems to be pretty open with what they know about you. Here are two links where they display an explicit list: https://www.google.com/dashboard/ and http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

[deno]

This is certainly not everything they know about you. This is part of their initiative to be not-evil, it’s called Data Liberation Front[1]. In their own words:

> Loyalty, not lock-in. We firmly believe you control your data, so we have a team of engineers whose only goal is to help you take your information with you. [2]

It’s absolutely terrific that they have something like this. Many others had to be dragged there kicking and screaming.

However, this is just not relevant to the topic at hand. This is “your data”, the data that you deliberately created, rather than revealed accidentally. The point of the project is to avoid vendor lock-in, rather than to protect your privacy.

If you’re EU resident, you should be able to just write to them and they have to reveal everything they have on you. And that list will be entirely different from this.

[1] http://www.dataliberation.org/

[2] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/supporting-choice-ens...

[rhizome]

FYI: "The Carlyle Group" = CIA