Privacy and Confidentiality has caused many issues in the past months on Social media sites. The fact that many sites try to hide their privacy data in fine print, makes a lot of the users not pay attention to it. There has been a few cases with LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google giving out their user information with out them even knowing. This is a major issue because of the fact that data we are posting, that we think is protected, is actually being sent around to other companies for their use.
It seem to us the products that we are looking for suddenly popping up on Google ads, is a coincidence. But it actually isn't, it was proved that the search engine gathers information based on profile usage and keywords that have been used before on your computer. Facebook has been exposed to taking the likes and searches of their users, and giving information to other companies where they can target you with the product they think that you would like. Although there are some benefits of these companies being able to help you, the fact that your private information is being given out without permission is unacceptable.
That's an excellent point that you brought out about how these big companies use the information we input without us authorizing it. Even if their actions benefit us in the long run, it is unacceptable for them to take in upon themselves and invade our privacy.
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