{"id":354907,"date":"2018-04-02T11:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T10:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/never-mind-facebook-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T11:16:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T10:16:03","slug":"never-mind-facebook-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/never-mind-facebook-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Mind Facebook &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Cambridge Analytica scandal put Facebook through the wringer in recent weeks, losing the company $100 billion in stock value and prompting a global debate on internet privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant was forced to apologize and overhaul its privacy and data sharing practices, but it still remains in the media spotlight and in the crosshairs of the Federal Trade Commission, which says it may be liable for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fines.<\/p>\n<p>But amid all the furor, one monolithic entity has continued to harvest data from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/5\/17\/15654454\/android-reaches-2-billion-monthly-active-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">billions of people<\/a>\u00a0worldwide. The data gathered includes a precise log of your every move and every internet search you\u2019ve ever made, every email you\u2019ve ever sent, your workout routine, your favourite food, and every photo you\u2019ve ever taken. And you have allowed it to happen to yourself, for the sake of better service and more relevant advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Google is a \u2018Big Brother\u2019 with capabilities beyond George Orwell\u2019s wildest nightmares. These capabilities are all the more chilling after Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet Inc., cut its famous \u201cdon\u2019t be evil\u201d line from its code of conduct in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Everything you\u2019ve ever searched for on any of your devices is recorded and stored by Google. It\u2019s done to better predict your future searches and speed up and streamline your browsing. You can clear your search history, but it only works for that particular device. Google still keeps a record of everything.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/myactivity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to see everything you\u2019ve ever searched on a Google device.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for every app and extension you use. If it\u2019s connected to Google, your data is stored. That means that your Facebook messages are not only farmed out to companies like Cambridge Analytica, Google also has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/04\/no_author\/never-mind-facebook-google-is-the-all-seeing-big-brother-you-should-know-about\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cambridge Analytica scandal put Facebook through the wringer in recent weeks, losing the company $100 billion in stock value and prompting a global debate on internet privacy. The social media giant was forced to apologize and overhaul its privacy and data sharing practices, but it still remains in the media spotlight and in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}