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by glimshe 1011 days ago
The danger of them having this data is just too great. It's too much concentration of power.

Would you trust the government with your voting preferences? Meta can know that with extremely high confidence based on the articles you read, people you follow etc. And while I'm not particularly trusting of the government, I'm even less trusting of zero-accountability, billionaire-led, Meta.

Imagine the potential for abuse if this data is in practice usable by large interest groups that want to strongly influence your behavior. Oh, wait a min! This data is usable today by these groups for ads targeting!

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That sort of unaccountability is why Brexit happened, and why Trump got elected. That level of abuse by special interest groups need to stop.