This should not come as a surprise. The same is true for Google. They don’t just give away G-Mail and search engines for free. What are they selling? They are selling their clients’ data.
If you do not want to be the product being sold, then pay someone else.
Facebook’s business is built on collecting and capitalizing on peoples’ personal information.
Your personal data has always been the key to Facebook’s business — and Facebook executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have used access to that personal data to strengthen strategic partnerships and hurt competitors over the years. At one point, Zuckerberg even considered selling users’ personal data to outside app developers.
That much was clear from a new trove of internal Facebook emails and other documents released by British lawmakers Wednesday. The documents had previously been sealed as part of an ongoing lawsuit filed against Facebook in California, but were made public by Britain’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which collected the documents last week.
“I believe there is considerable public interest in releasing these documents,” tweeted Damian Collins, the committee’s chair. “They raise important questions about how Facebook treats users data [sic], their policies for working with app developers, and how they exercise their dominant position in the social media market.”
A new trove of internal Facebook emails is a stark reminder: You are Facebook’s product
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing – and changing us. Your personal data has always been the key to Facebook’s business – and Facebook executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have used access to that personal data to strengthen strategic partnerships and hurt competitors over the years.