When a person follows you and watches your every move, it's called stalking. When companies like Meta do it, it's just called collecting user data.
I just had that comment the other day from a recruiter who "dug into" my socials with the help of "expert tools". She said "Aww... you seem really nice to everyone!" (eller "Faaaan... du framstår som så trevlig mot allt och alla!") after browsing all my non-anonymous social posts and seeing which Facebook groups I've participated in. I had just about deleted my Meta accounts before I realized I needed to have some kind of semblance of "social posting", as my LinkedIn and such were pretty meager. The recruiting company unfortunately seems to prove that I need to have a social media trail in order to be employable in my field of expertise. Which has literally nothing to do with social media.
Maybe that's why I can't even get to the first round of interviews despite a decade of experience in the field.
Fortunately for you, LLMs are obnoxiously friendly, so why not generate a few slops of happiness for Meta every now and then. As a bonus, you’ll be polluting their next model too. It’s a win-win situation!
I still call it stalking.
That's just a product of you trying to be objective and accurate.
I have nothing to hide, except my alternative media sources. I also have absolutely nothing I’d like to share though.
Just because I have nothing to hide doesn’t mean I’m going to keep my front door open and let you catalogue everything I own and watch everything I do
Taking one idea is plagiarism taking a thousand is inspiration. Seems the same logic applies to this
'All data is metadata'
Well, did you provide them a EULA (that they’ll never read) first?
Oh yeah. I have seen many a comic with the comparison and apple even had an ad about it. Its crazy what people will put up with for so little and if it were the government, oh boy, but you know all good because corporations have our best interest or they are not as powerful as governments to control us or ruin our lives... /s
When Nathan Fielder does it, it’s art.
Also if anyone wants to know the context of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CaHP5P4wUc
One of the best recent pieces of media I’ve seen
Skip over season 1 and just watch season 2
Or you could just be the Police. (the band or the pigs, your choice)
Oh can't you seeeeee
Absolutely can’t stand the “I have nothing to hide” response. Like y’all aren’t parroting Nazi propaganda.
"nothing to hide"
just wait until your smart fridge notifies your insurance company (who knows you're diabetic) that you just bought a gallon of NOT sugar free ice cream. think they'll give a rat's ass that it's not for you? i bet they'll be more than happy to raise your premiums either way. or worse
I am in the minority but if i ever had a fridge that's costing me money like that it would never be a brand I would ever associate with ever again and the current one is being tossed ASAP. I'm also not connecting fridges to my wifi either because why should it be?
They'll send the vegan police after you?
When someone says this irl, I like to ask them if I can go look through their underwear drawer.
Oddly enough the people with nothing to hide usually say no.
Underwear drawer is nothing compared to their actual phone.
If they have nothing to hide, then you should be able to install a mirroring app so that you can log onto their phone at anytime for any reason.
I don't get any takers on this either.
This reminds me of when a neighbor reported to the landlord that we were smoking weed indoors. She claimed she could smell it in her own apartment. We weren’t (and weed is legal where I live, so it’s a moot point.) When the landlord came around, we let him come in and smell our apartment. He found nothing.
So we suggested that the landlord go smell HER (the narc’s) apartment to confirm how bad the smell is. Guess what? She refused to let him in.
If she ever attempts to complain again, the procedure now will be to investigate her apartment first. If she refuses, we won’t be bothered. So yeah.
It is a weird cope and it is wild how that's the default response to vast majority of the people.
Is bootlicking programed into human DNA?
I don't get it. ESP being smug about it to boot.
Yes it is. Biologically speaking, we're programmed to make way for the strong and steal crumbs from the devastation caused by their passing.
Or to stalk and annoy the strong until they fall and we can pillage their corpse.
Either way, we're not really the direct confrontation type. We're the sneaky, backstabby, dirty fighting type.
"Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty."
I'm not parroting anything. I just also realize the vast scale of the data imo makes most of it worthless outside of demographics ad targeting lol
Not when each point is matched to a unique machine (i.e. user) ID. It's not anonymous, it's "anonymized" which is just snake oil (replace your actual name with a unique ID).
Also, I find ad targeting bad enough all by itself.