Data Google and Facebook hold on users

[seafoid]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy

[armaghniac]

Since Christmas, Google would show that I have been in Armagh 4 times, and once in Mullingar, Tullamore and Wexford and that I stopped in Enniscorthy and went up Vinegar Hill. Can I send this to the Armagh county board when they are giving out All Ireland tickets?

[brokencrossbar1]

I listened to him on Matt cooper the other night. It really is frightening but not stuff we didn't really know. I reckon there is scope for a class action against both companies under Art 8 of the ECHR.

[seafoid]

Targeted advertising may have been around before but FB and Google have taken it into the stratosphere. 75% of all new digital advertising went to them in 2016. That is effectively an oligopoly. They pay very little tax.   
Should the US turn fascist who knows what could be done with the data? . Social media has already been implicated in caste murders in India. Maybe homosexuality won't be tolerated in the West in the future.
And where is privacy ?