These are the two most notable offenders, of course, but there are hundreds of other major sites gathering information from every keystroke you make. Yesterday it was revealed that Facebook was conducting experiments on mood and feeling by altering user feeds, giving some people good news, others bad. Fie on you, Zuckerberg.
Most sites claim that they monitor our posts and even emails (thanks gmail) in order to give us more quality in the ads they present us. Preposterous. I don't want any ads, thank you very much. Their explanation implies they are providing a service. Right.
The fact is that hundreds of billions of bits of information are being stored on the American people and those in other countries. A recent NBC story reported that large companies house this data and are reluctant to even have their names known. 1984 has arrived, people, albeit a little bit late.
As for me, I intend to post things on Facebook to confuse their algorithms: screaming zebras, Russian clowns, etc. We could create a massive headache for the people tracking us and change policy, but apparently most of us don't care as long as we can post the pictures of our kitties on Facebook.
Cat Spaulding
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