Link: “How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach” by Cory Doctorow
Facebook has such a sweet racket. First, they used the Roach Motel model – data checks in, but it doesn’t check out – to trap you and all your friends in a mutual hostage-taking situation, where you can’t leave because they’re there, and they can’t leave because you’re there.
All those address books they imported, the data they gathered from publishers’ websites through the Like buttons (which gather data whether or not you click them), the data they bought or snaffled up through free mobile SDKs is now permanently siloed inside of FB.
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