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Of all the large companies that are now large internet players, do anyone particularly scare you in terms of how you data and track could be used? Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, …?

I think Facebook is the most evidently intrusive. They monitor all of your online activity pretty much and then shape your thoughts and such with targeted advertising. There will come a time in the future when the world decides it needs to take a step back from such intrusion in to their personal lives.

The Internet knows where your cat lives. Using the hidden meta-data about the geographic location of where the photo was taken which we share when we publish photos of our cats on sites like Instagram and other social media networks.

For now I have not felt with the company is frightening, in fact with the company I find it helpful to find friends who have long lost contact. But in the future it could be a company can be frightening, because our information has been input by them, such as email, and our home address.

Social sites are the most invasive sites as they harvest all your data and sell these data to advertisers. The place you live, your likes, your friends, the type of food you like, the things you do not like. These are all used for advertisers to market products to you. Social sites sell all the information about you. So as a user, I am careful about what i share.

For shopping sites like amazon, their intentions are about understanding what products you like. They do not harvest your private information, they track my preference in products and then market similar products to me. In this sense, they are helpful as they help me to discover new products.

Notice the differences in the two? So be careful about what you share online. Our digital identity is a precious commodity but most just get sold by social media sites without our knowledge.

If you're that easy to manipulate and a few ads can shape your "thoughts" even billboards are dangerous for you.
The problem might not be the website, but the user behind monitor.


And? If it ever gets lost, that might be helpful when you need to find it.


None. And, what can they do with that data? They can print it and wipe their........
Sometime people get paranoid. FB has my data....what can they do with it?

You must have heard about this article right where facebook was doing experiments on manipulating emotions (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-users-emotions-news-feeds). We have to accept the fact that not everybody in the world has the same level of smarts and common sense. Their are a lot of emotionally unstable, emotional fools out there. That doesn't mean that the intrusion by ad companies is answerable by the individual himself.


Sound good when its just the cat. Not so much when the state decides to infringe on your activities because you are becoming a thorn by the side, say like an activist journalist. They know everything about you and your behavior pattern, places you visit etc. Its not so hard to imagine such data being used to demolish political opponents or even activists.


I don't think its so simplistic. Normal people like you and me gradually become part of this machinery that determines how the world runs. When the people in power no everything and monitor everyone, their are subtle ways that information can be used to their advantage without anybody noticing. Maybe facebook doesn't want your data. But having all of it stored in their servers is a potential mine from where patterns can be derived.
You may call it paranoid but the level of false information that is being fed to reinforce viewpoints is undeniable. This is being made possible by targeted delivery of news and ads. You only ever see the things that their "algorithm" thinks will gain the most clicks form you or the most view time. You surrender yourself as a consumer because you only ever see what they show you. Where is the chance to expand your horizons and make mistakes then.
So, One really shouldn't brush off privacy concerns. They affect all of us and have far reaching consequences.

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the colourful monolith, all knowing uncle, the great cards dealer, advertising croupier etc. etc, google.
Latest days where quite saturated with news (https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4295350/did-you-know-google-has-been-secretly-recording-you-heres-how-to-find-the-creepy-audio-files-that-are-monitoring-your-conversations-every-day/) regarding this giant being able to record and store all our voice commands.
Check this out if you missed it somehow, it is always voluntary but enabled by default, so it is possible to "stop this service" but... service as a part of the android system is still there and running.
And how many other instances of our data collection (unfortunately still voluntary) are there? Most of googles services require us to have some sort of additional sensors enabled, I can only imagine, how much data they posses daily on one single individual. If this isn't scary, idk what is.

Also we must accept that there are a lot of easy to manipulate morons who will make the wrong choices.
Hitler was voted by 30% of the Germans, and Stalin would have won fair and square every election.
And this was way before Trump and whatever happened there.



The state is elected by you and me.
If you vote into power people that are going to abuse power, then the fact that your cat is a youtube star is your last problem.
I come from a former communist country ,i f the government wants to enforce something, they will do this without the help of social media.
20 tanks rolling in the streets will make you rethink what's most important in life.

You talk about treating cancer rather that preventing it.


Just as I said above.
If you allow people that are going to abuse power to reach positions of power you are the only one to blame.
Not showing your taste in cars or food on social media won't solve the problem, nor will laws about your privacy.
Prevent the situation, don't try to solve problems that shouldn't be there in the first place.

It's really crazy what is going on with facebook on data scratching.

I have seen some experiments that people were talking about something, with their phone on sleep mode, and soon after that when they logged in into their facebook account, they found out that they are getting offered advertisements about the same thing that they were talking about.
For an example, if they were talking about a trip to the USA, they received advertisements from trip advisors.
It should be illegal, what if I will talk with someone about something that I don't want anybody to know, would facebook still process my data?

I think it's Google. We are using much more of their services and they cross-compile a Big Data by that.

People can live without Facebook (like me, I don't use it), but it's very hard to avoid all Google services and work online.

i see facebook dont trust with all cryptocurrency mr zuckerberg the ceo or the founder of facebook dont want cryptocurrency i think thats why they ban all advertisement in their website thats why some of our facebook bounty are deleted.

I think amazon is a little bit scary since it has your credit card information. Honestly, all online stores are sketchy since you will have a tendency to think their legitimacy and their possibilities of money laundering.

Its not that he is not trusting it but there are just scam ICO who's using their advertising tools just to scam people that's why maybe Mr.Zuckerberg implements that altcoin Ads banning law to their site since maybe they doesn't want to get blame by the authorities if their are huge scam leakage will come on future.

We know facebook is more dangerous than others, all data about you can be used by "unidentified organizations", to track and spy on your activities.

Of all, Google is the most scary. I have never used Amazon, and could avoid using Twitter or Facebook but for Google I don't think there is a way around it. The moment you have a smart phone you are just entangled especially if you're just a basic users and not bothered about staying anonymous on the internet. From the use of Google chrome where sites you visited are used to determine the type of advert you get to see, the apps you downloaded from play store having to grant access to everything on your phone before you can use it, to the synchronisation of all your gadgets.

The most of it is the location deactivation which is more like a dummy because even after putting it off, its still active, to the ability of phone speaker to listen in to conversation you think you are having privately.

Amazon has a service called Amazon Key, which basically is a system that opens the doors for an in-home delivery of packages. Aside from malicious intent of the delivery guy, it's a system that will likely get bypassed at some point, and the tool needed for that will then be sold to everyone interested, mostly thieves. Not in a hundred years will I allow that stuff to be installed in my house. I rather keep picking up packages at the local postal office than 'enjoying' a bit of convenience that might turn out to be nothing but a problem. In most cases people make fun of their grand parents for not being techie, or not having a smartphone and computer, but with everything that's going on, they are the only people with actual privacy. So who's laughing now? ;)

Most of the time people are intertwined with the internet, so our privacy is compromised with this technology. What scare me the most with this ever growing evolution of technology is that it always able to monitor our daily online activities that seemed to be private. But there is nothing we can do to stop this evolution because as i said earlier, we are intertwined with the internet. We have to live with it especially now that bitcoin caught up with this technology.

I guess they have to hire ITs which are more expert in keeping data and connections, a fully secured system that has been implemented in your company. In good terms, large-scale companies rarely hacked by hackers itself due to high expertise in technology. There’s nothing to be scared about if we were guided by our professionally inclined Technicians :)

Even this internet companies know everything I don't think you have fear this things don't do anything but those people who take advantage of our technology  its not what things might do to you we person created this and we have the responsibility if what is the fruit of our doing s

We all know that facebook the main useable of all people entire the world so I think the banks usually use Facebook since they know that people becomes aware if they share something.

To be a big corporation in the world certainly companies must have a lot of tricks to be able to grow the company fastest. I have learned and know that there are many tricks that big companies have used to compete with each other. The market is no different from the battlefield.

Here are some examples for the popular and mighty companies that have the complete track of our profiles:

GOOGLE - Everything that you have ever searched for is saved deeply in the google storages even if you had deleted your history. You age and gender are visible to the google even if you had not told them that because of their comprehensive ads profile of you. If you have the android phone Google will know where you had traveled ( Interesting thing is that your phone also knows how fast you were traveling on your trips - it is good that they dont share that data with the police - yet ;))

YOUTUBE - They know what kind of videos you have been watching ( be aware of what you are typing in your search field)

FACEBOOK - I dont have to tell you how mighty this company is. Even if you delete your profile all of your data still remains there and if you ever decide to go to Facebook again all the data will magically appear there.

APPLE - Siri is storing every information you had ever asked her ( It would be better that you dont ask her about some strange and criminal things). You never know how will your data be processed later in this time in which our privacy is ruined

AMAZON - They are collecting data about your reading habbits ( hmm, interesting)

Every of this companies is scary in some kind of way because you never know how will your "private" data be used later. If you have strange habits think before you act and remember that every information that you are giving over the network will be stored there and you never know when someone will dig it and use it against you.

This remind me of a somewhat funny incident that happened three years ago.
I was away on a trip and my (at that time girlfriend) went to a party, then she spent a few more hours with one of her colleagues and her husband.When returning home....no keys. It was 3 AM, she didn't have anyone to call to sleep over, her friends probably turned their phones on silent, no money for a hotel, so at 4 in the morning I was paying online for her hotel room, 100 meters from our home :)))).

If we had this Amazon Key things would have been far easier.
But, without it I can still make fun of her every time we arrive late home.

But speaking about AKey if you buy this system just for deliveries why not buy one parcel delivery box and bolt id down on the veranda?
We have one like that in our apartment complex and we had no problems....yet.

I feel like the best time to make this topic was 10 years ago when people still discussed such things openly without fear. Around 7 years ago, Julian Assange and wikileaks came out with a "if you own a blackberry or iphone: you're screwed" news headline where he claimed he had data proving that there were mass surveillance devices being sold to monitor internet, cell phone and PDA usage of common, everyday, folk.

Link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/01/julian_assange_surveillance/

The private sector has fought surveillance to a degree. You have apple who refused to weaken encryption to help state surveillance programs. There are others in the private sector who fund news and media which publishes objective and accurate data at times to help issues like wealth and wage inequality which could threaten economic stability.

I think if you're looking for frightening surveillance programs, they tend to be more state oriented than in the private sector.

I quite remember that during the Obama tenure, there was a leak that the USA were spying on Angela Merkel the German Chancellor but in recent times if Facebook alone has been able to influence the elections through fake news then its the most scary corporation currently.

Does putting a fake address counts? There are some other devices that can change their location if they want to. I know google would ask your location and i guess it already know your location already by sending you a ping to know your IP, so does facebook. I just want to know if this really works on google or facebook.

You're implying in this that I'm incapable of speaking for the majority of the public instead of myself. And also that all statements are absolute, your thoughts could be influenced but not completely.


I wouldn't even necessarily say that 'idiots' is a fair judgment. It's not that they are incapable of making good decisions for themselves it's just that they either fear doing it or are too lazy to do it. They accept the information that is most readily spoon fed to them by the world.

wow i just thingking the internet are realy scary and all of those big companies have our data

Today, we use a lot of social networks, typically Facebook, which collects most of the user's personal information such as location, interests, friendships, even the need to show ads. I remember once I talked to my friends about a product, then visited Facebook and saw ads about that product, did Facebook use the right to use the microphone to hear my talk?   ??? ??? ???

I think along with google, facebook and the usual suspects I think Coinbase can't be too far behind, they are dominating their market right now.

Lol, are they already doing this? I wouldn't doubt about it, but are you sure you didn't search for this product on the internet? Maybe that could be the reason you have seen this product's ads on Facebook. Right after searching for the product on Google or any other shopping site (because of cookies)...

Anyway, it's really disgusting how Facebook collects everyone's personal informations. It's already time for a new decentralized social media arises and become the main popular platform. I can even fell Facebook's site too heavy on my laptop, heavy because they are full of cookies and secondary apps running all the time to not miss any information about you...

Although I would say that privacy should be a major concern among internet users, I'm forced to believe that the majority of users simply don't care. If you just look at the normal behavior of a Facebook user, that posts in a lot of information that should be private, and they do it in a public manner, then I would say that they don't really care much about how Facebook stores their data. Most of them don't even know how facebook does that, and they don't believe that once you say something in the internet, it will stay there forever, even if you delete it form the platform you used to post it.

That is something that should be of great concern to everyone, because it might not mean much now, but imagine if some dictator manages to form a government in a big country. They might trace back everything you said years ago, and make you pay for it. This is an extreme example, but everything we say can be used against us in the future, and that's why we should protect our privacy.

My point was that people will always be people. We all screw up and tend to follow the herd most of the time.

You completely glossed over the fact that such social media experiments (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29475019) show that it is indeed possible to target and manipulate particular demographics based on their social media/ net habits.

For example, Someone with access to all the google, twitter and facebook meta-data and the motivation and resources to mine it can easily divide people in groups as being favorable/ non-favorable to a particular candidate or proposal. They can then target the users accordingly to shape their opinion.
Denying that its always only "stupid" people who fall for such tactics is giving too much credit to your own thought process. A majority of people will change their opinion when bombarded with a particular ideology on their social feeds for a long enough time.
Lets take the cat out of the equation..LOL..

My argument was that indiscriminate and voluntary use of social media, amazon, google etc. allows for constant surveillance and monitoring. This makes it possible for the state to have control over the lives of individuals that can be considered to be politically sensitive targets.

You have lived in a communist country so you must be well aware of what the state apparatus can do with brute force and how political opponents can be targeted. How it can be dangerous to profess your opinions in public.

The catch is that infringement on privacy allows the state to have the same level of control while maintaining the facade of being a completely democratic one. That is in fact a much more dangerous situation.


You are absolutely right that "Citizens are to be blamed if they allow wrong people to get to power". But then you are choosing to completely ignore the effect that 21st century media has.
This argument assumes that human judgement remains untouched by the flurry of information and bombardment of sensational imagery by social media and media in general.

I suggest you take a look at this article about how investigating agencies think that  Russian troll farms (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43093390) targeted particular demographics during the US elections.

I think the Social Media websites are scary especially your Facebook account because there are some people who lay everything on the Facebook account; where they live, where they are on that particular date and time. That's what scares me the most and that's why I don't post all the time and everything on any of my Social Media accounts.

To be honest i am not scared because i am a nobody and i do not think government or anyone will be interested with my data but i think everything is connected i do not know if they have sharing data but try to google something like an adidas rubber shoes. The ads will be shown in your google plus but i was surprised that an advertisement will be shown as well in your social media like facebook.

Whether you believe it or not, but all companies are involved in such practices, Especially, the companies which have data of millions of users. There is so much money to be made with this. I recently purchased a domain from a leading company. I started getting calls from web design companies from my country and it continued for 30-40 days. You decide.

Well I don't think that these huge companies are scary. The right word is successful. I read many facts and details about them on datapo (https://datapo.com/en/) source. Do you know that Sony is mainly an insurance company? I guess not, so take a look at that website to know more interesting info.

The Internet is a very dangerous tool for privacy, that's why it's important to master these tools and control the information you give.

They are as we are providing our information and they have a big storage for all of our data's. That's why they are maintaining and keeps on upgrading their data center's for it.
I don't have an idea that Sony is mainly an insurance company though. I'm only worried that we are giving our information freely to these websites and all of them can be a threat to someone that is shadily doing something wrong.

I would say facebook itself duo to the expirence my friend had with it.
He talked with a bunch of hes friends in hes house about "puzzles", after a day he gets and ad on facebook about a sell on differenet sizes of puzzles on amazon.

Hi,

All of them actually. They all work together, buying and selling data. You are no longer anonymous on Internet. You leave tracks of who you are and what you do, everywhere. Your mail adress is linked with your phone number "for security reasons", thus leading to any other websites on which you leave your phone number.. That is to say many, many, many.

The whole system is working like that. Actually, I worked in a company that was against the use of such data. They were unable to compete with their direct competitors, they were always behind them. Just because such data today must be secured quickly to be optimally used by companies.

So I guess they are all a threat. And the fact that they all work all together is even more worrying!  :-\

To me, GOOGLE on line services encompasses a lot more than what any one could imagine and spread all over every facet of life and covers every nooks and crannies of the world. This Global world of Google is somehow scary if we can put it that way.

I even wonder how really secure we are (our data) from these giant entities. As to security measure especially in FB, I think it's quite good but my concern is do they really not access our records in their database?

Yes, they are, the most important thing is many companies are trying to improve themselves such as Facebook has decided that mark will spend 2018 to improve the security and other stuff on Facebook, show that the number of fake sites and false advertisement decreases. It's true that many big internet companies keep all of our data from our daily life as they are trying to improve.

Those do not really bother me as much, yes facebook keeps track of everything you do but you can decide to not use facebook or twitter and they will have nothing on you or very little at most, the ones that bother me are ISP you have to use them to access the internet and they keep records of everything you do so they have a lot more info than facebook, Google and twitter all combined.

I am scared about Google. Facebook is something very optional, you don´t really need to use it at all. However, I find much more difficult not to use any Google service.

Why have you left Google out of this list? In terms of amount of data which has been stockpiled, I think Google is unparalleled. They probably know you better than you yourself do. It is not about being scared, but taking steps to safeguard your privacy.

facebook and twitter because the company often rejects illegal activities that are not at all in their favor.
such as free advertising from all internet actors, and inevitably soon they will close the way for users who do not pay.

You got it dude. I used to think about online shops to be dangerous since they take your credit card details but i forgot about facebook. Our privacy maybe hidden from the public but with facebook they know of course. Even single post if it violates their rules they are blocking it right away.

I think Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, because people can upload fake news and some videos that are not suitable for kids, they cannot stop also those fake accounts that spread malicious ads and comments.

From the three you mentioned, Twitter and Amazon ain’t much of a problem, but Facebook is. Facebook is the most intrusive, and worst part of it is that you have their app on your mobile device, it never closes (even if you try to ‘force stop' it) rather it stays on. I can’t tell the reason why they do that, but it’s very suspicious. Well, that one is not much of a problem… the most intrusive (whatever) is GOOGLE.

Google takes every information about you, monitors your location (even when you don’t want) and also monitors what you do on the web. Creepy right? Meehn, Google is worst that the others. And that’s why I don’t switch on my phone’s GPS (Location).

Some companies are some time not want to collect the crypto and in the case of bitcoin all the companies who understand the bitcoin importance they are willing to accept bitcoin but the some users of Facebook and the you tube channels are restricting bitcoin and this issue will be sort out  soon. The current demand of bitcoin shows the presence and importance of bitcoin It is good to know that which companies who are accepting bitcoin we have to buy from them.

I am really scared of Monsanto and the Pharma. They are basically playing the role of god with nature and they are so huge that there´s not a lot we can do.

Google can track all of us does have smartphone's, even there's no data on your phone it does know what you are doing and where you are standing.

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locations-even-when-location-services-are-disabled/

it is very bad that the infrastructure for Bitcoin users is still not developed and even in some countries there are small changes, but not as I would like. But I think that everything depends on the users themselves and their progress in this area.

Have no doubt, people have been manipulated all along history, and everyday, is just human nature and nowadays is just the same thing but more scientific, digital and more acute.

While those are scary the biggest company of all which is the governments you should be probably more concerned about them. I wouldn't doubt if they had information on us at all times of the day, and they basically do due to cell phone and credit card tracking.

Nowadays that we're living on the "digital age", internet along with social networking sites, buying and selling sites and others have been part of our lives. It makes our lives easier, I think it wouldn't be scary if we use it responsibly. Do not overfeed all your personal data on a certain site, especially if it isn't needed. Be a responsible Internet user and think before you click.

I am quite scared by the popularity of those voice devices. I am sure that Google and Amazon and whoever creates a personal assistant will not resist the temptation of using all that data.

For me I trust the companies most specially the social media. Right from the start equality in social is fare. Not only that I owe Facebook a lot because they are giving me the right client.

It doesn't scare me most specially the companies of social media, maybe for people who don't have the right credibility or should I say whose hiding from the law or the people whose have the intention on doing bad to someone.

The internet is something terrifying because if you use the internet, you can reveal where you are. Many mobile applications require the right to use personal information and call access, which puts you under constant control and surveillance. There was a lot of trouble discovered when many companies were trying to track down and illegally tap a user's call.

companies have good and bad features. sometimes we cannot see those reasons and its effect to our investment. so, i guess certain companies like internet companies, some of them are scary in such a way that it is a scam. all of the efforts, money and time of the people can be wasted. there are people who rely and waiting on their salary but none will be given to them. and that is the most scary thing that some people is facing.

Whatever site that holds up on your personal data can be a possible threat any day, no doubt in that. Thought these are giant companies with loads of trust and security, as they say, but at tge end of the day, they handle more than half of our daily lives.

Be it facebook or twitter, people stay here any number of hours and share their personal details and what not.
The new iphone X with the feature of face recignition is all the time 24/7 tracking your face, isnt that a threat in itself? The camera is always on for getting a face to be recognised, isnt it capturing your daily activities?

Many such speculations arise with different big companies. But the mass operates based on the trust over these companies believing that our data wont be breached. And everyone hopes that it never does.

Now it is difficult to hide all your information when there is an Internet, bank cards, and so on. But I do not want to believe that our data from social networks is being processed or stored in the database for further use. Although everything can be.

Honestly I do not care about the data and track about my identity.  I have not posted anything that will endangered me or my family.  Aside from that these sites are bound to some rules, regulations about privacy.  They will never share or sell your data unless you, yourself leaked it to the public or somehacker penetrates the data base and sell the data to other company. 

I agree with this one. We areworried about our personal data an meanwhile the farma is creating new ways of not healing us, but making us their perpetual clients.

We should be much more than scared, we should be terrorized. Never in the history of manking little groups of people have achieved the power to know so much about so many people. This Big Data shit can very easily turn into the worst of the nightmares for most of us...

As long as it has to do with internet. Trust no company. They may be giving you the right client which you are obviously paying for, but you would not be more surprise later on if you find out that you have been paying even much more. Privacy is something that scares me the most when it comes to social media and that is why I have limited my usage anyway, most especially when it comes to some certain information.

This is a digital age, and if you want to start worrying now, you should have worried a long time ago and stay away from the internet, cause as it is, there is really nothing you can do about it for now. This is normal and I am sure when it comes to invasion, then we should worry more about social media than even the likes of amazon. You never know who is looking at you right now as you are reading this.

Of course our data is not secure, it is known they collaborate with anyone that ask your data and they use that date to their benefit, so if you really do not have any real use for platforms like that then do not use them there are many services that allow you to avoid them and get similar functionality, why use google when you can use a search engine that does not keep track of everything you do.

Yeah, the internet generally is terrifying. I am not sure if it was just all in my head one time, but I was trying to do some work on my PC and then I heard these strange voices speaking some language I do not understand for a few seconds and then it stopped. I was not streaming anything, the website I was on had no media on it, and that scared the shit out of me and made me feel I am being monitored. ;D So, I would rather be scared of the whole internet itself than just the social media sites.

I'm not scared of any site that could possibly trace my transaction history, what's I'm afraid of are the hackers that can steal my bitcoin from my wallet. Time will come that Amazon, Facebook and other big name in internet market will adopt cryptos just like a normal currency, they will somehow require KYC for every transaction but I don't mind that as long as they will not do bad on my bitcoin and earnings.

To be honest I do not know which one of them is worse, Google is very intrusive since most phones run android and whenever you update you get all kind of Google junk and some of that is impossible to uninstall, so no matter what you do you will always have some of the Google products with you, this is why I prefer to use old phones I do not get any functionality except a phone but I prefer that than to be tracked all day.

If we are even talking about scam, it would be better; this is about your data and the fact that some of these companies can actually be used in monitoring you without you even knowing.

I may be wrong, but all the video calls, voice, all you data, are all there with them, and that sometimes can be pretty scary. I am sure these guys make a lot of their money from our data. I read something related about IPhone once. However, social media? That is just the most scaring.

Well these companies are also bound by laws and they know that there will be repercussions once they violate their cust's privacy and trust. Big companies put premium in securing their customers' information so i'm not really concerned. Their reputation depends on it anyways

I agree thats why we must protect our own data our own privacy because large company like facebook are continuously violating our rights If Im not mistaken there was a project using blockchain technology that is focusing on data privacy and its called the pillar wallet I believe privacy is one of the most interesting topic this days and with the help of this kind of project all our concerns must be solved.   

Exactly, they never sell your data to other but most of the website collecting a large number of database and selling those to people who want to market their products. I think social media channels like facebook, twitter etc they never ask you for complete info about yours.

I think Google is the most intense in using our personal data, such as: location, search preference, contact, web history (including porn) :D

Big social media companies that  change s our life  and the way we live, I think Facebook is the most  influential and almost becomes  databases of your life, because as we use we divulging our  personal  information to the net, and even  get information that  its either  true or not personal opinion  and even terrorizing ng people  using  Facebook  because there is no  control  using  Facebook

Which of the listed above doesn't scare s? All does. The Internet is a place of lost privacy and we should understand this but I think the Mark Zuckerberg team overdoes it with preying eyes. The watchful Big Brother of the past does no longer sit in Russia. Now BB watches us from the devices in our hands.

I believed these big companies served different purposes, while some still and probably render us similar services. If you feel anyone like Facebook in particular coin our data for unsupported services by us and in one way or the other reap our data unscrupulously diplomatically, you may try and close the Account for another that we feel served you better. Its just we linked the outside world through these medium, one may restrict or limit their services rendered to us in their settings.

I believe too that Facebook is devil of all. They have been in the market since long time now and they are not doing great now a days. I mean they track us all the time with the caches, cookies etc and then alter the way we surf over the internet. The flashing ads they show are always relevant to what we daily surf what we watch and much more. Even if you dont have to shop then they will put big ads on your page and they will change your minds. Also I dont think that our photos are stored securely always. I mean there have been so many hacking reports in my country and the misuse of such photos continues always. Dont know but I now only use Facebook rarely.

Every global company is scary especially because of the global control over their site that includes the location tracking, tracking of your searches and habits, actually tracking everything about you. We ain't safe in the times like this and our personal information can be used against us if someone is eager to do so.

We are all using big social media that are part of the big companies but our safety is in danger and to secure ourselves we must use additional methods for keeping our data safe.

Every time we use a computer, access our phones, or open an app on a tablet, we’re leaving a digital trail. Most people are vaguely aware that Google knows what they’ve searched for, or that Facebook knows who their friends are, but it goes much, much deeper than that.

I think facebook is a little horrible company because facebook can keep an eye on our movement when online location and everything can be tracked from facebook.

I guess all of them can track our data now a days. I mean just imagine whenever you put something into google search then there hundreds of advertisements starts flashing around the browser and they could be from the Facebook, amazon and other shopping sites. I have seen this and observed many times that the search matches to our past orders perfectly and so as to the advertisements. This internet world knows us better than anyone and ourselves too. This is the result of technology which is centralised and we can not control anything here. Thats really retarded how these guys are keeping track of everything that we do. I always keep clearing my browsers when it comes to new searches. Otherwise they intrude into my devices from all the ways. They fucking even know I have Mac and iPhone. What the heck.  ::)

Cyber ​​crime has now penetrated almost to all social media, but when compared with other social media, facebook is the most dangerous. Many users upload personal data such as birthdate, photo, family relationships, etc. Date of birth can be an opening gate for cyber criminals who want to know financial information, such as your bank account. Today's users can broadcast live daily activities, this is very dangerous, such as if the user is publishing the condition he is on vacation, indirectly he tells the villain that the user's home is uninhabited, perhaps indirectly the villain was looking at his post was trying to steal or commit a crime in his home or could have come to the user with bad intentions, as we know, our followers on facebook very much and most are people we do not know at all.

The modern world is the world of information technology. Data about every person who has visited the Internet forever remain there. There's no such thing as confidentiality right now. But I don't understand how your date of birth data can help criminals get to your Bank account? Do you have a persecution mania?

Actually for me all companies are scary but based on activities and status updates on Facebook, the company can predict (with scary accuracy) whether or not your relationship is going to last.

Google is sure one if these guys. I agree with those above who mentioned google. I use to be working with google as I'm a webmaster myself so I own few websites even today that google is indexing and even my name is index that I have no idea how to delete them online. I'd like to take it out but seem like the all index everything. But that isn't the problem with google, they monitor everything we do online specially if you have gmail.

All of these are tracking user data and it is indeed scary. You forgot about Google as well which is also involved in this. If you involved with some large projects and want to hide details from these companies, make use of encrypted mail providers and also use proxy to hide your identity. Do not make any search on Google or YouTube with a logged in account.

In online companies weather its Facebook, Twitter or Amazon but let me specify my answer, for me in Facebook because a lot of people use Facebook now a days and its hard to trust and most of all they can hack it and know your identity without your presence or knowledge. so for me the scariest company is Facebook.

Google are one of these kinds of company. They collect all data including location, search history, conversation, pictures, almost everything in your phone. Google is the master influencer in every online purchase. Once you search something in Google, your social media site will instantly flooded you all kinds of advertising related to your item you have search until you become hook on that piece. Sometimes it is creepy because Google knows you when you are almost at your home or at work. They also were suggesting you to re-route because of pending traffic ahead.

Facebook may be one that scares me. Except for the fact that they themselves uses their technology to keep track of people, other hackers may also use them to get info's about bitcoin holders.

It would have to be facebook. You put a lot of information in facebook and if you don't have enough knowledge of their security feature you might compromise yourself and your family.

Yeah I agree as most people are doing a normal habits in making post a pictures about a gatherings and updates about the happenings of there day that I think too scary, as many people knows your personal life's and your the routine. It's easy for the criminal to know your locations if they have plan on you. For me, Facebook is not safe to include your daily activities and personal life's.  

Internet social security is a big concern now a days, Big companies track all your activities which is not at all cool. With the revolution of the smartphone, even location tracking had become quite common now. All these Big internet fishes keep their eye on each and every activity we do on the internet in day to day life.

There are number of companies across the entire world which are little scary while declaring any of the crypto currency like that of bitcoin as mode of payment and as a mode of paying to their employees. It is because of the fact that still none of the country has not declared it as an official currency and till the time this will not be dine, things will not change as no company will take such risk.

   I dont like to publish any of my private information therefore I beware of any internet player. When I covered my web camera I got a banner on Youtube says: "Why did you cover your camera? Beware of trojans? Use our antivirus..". I dont use any of social webs and tend to leave wrong information about me everywhere

I think these are 3 of the most known large companies that exist in the internet. Among these three the scariest I think is the facebook. This actually contains a lot of information about yourself, your family and friends, and sometimes even your daily rouitine if you used to broadcast it around the social media.  We know that it can possibly be hacked and used to manipulate people and other things around you. And I’ve already seen those kinds of things.

Definitely facebook. I can't count the number of times I have used facebook to login to websites before when I still didn't know what's what. They have your photos, websites, searches, messages and almost your life. Even accounts that were hacked can discredit your identity.

Social media, I think a lot of people are using their services. I think the data on the list you listed is a great company that certainly has a high security standards, we can just to not use if we want to avoid things that we do not want. but if google and intetnet, I think we can not do much to avoid it.

I think they scared because maybe they know that theres a lot of player will loss their mind by playing and using this social media theres a lot of peoole became bad people becausr of this so theey scared aboutwhat will happen in the future if it continuees.

I think all that is related to the internet will be very easy to know personal data from others even from some other social media. Even in today's technological era there are many sites that have features to search for information or data about others and this is an advanced search engine tailor made for that purpose. But this can not be done if people are never active in the internet world.

I also dislike companies that evade taxes and do it legally, that is by pressing and lobbying to have laws that are made to the size of the large corporations and evade tax.

I think social media is Facebook, because I feel facebook is very protection once to follow what we do in the facebook forum, and even facebook ban criptocurrancy world into its territory. i do not know why that could happen ..

Facebook and other social media can easily or fastly spread rumors or news. So I think this can affect businesses positively or negatively. Scams in the in the internet are also feared. So we must be careful enough.

Those companies that you mention is highly respected and they will not do anything sneaky that will affect you in a bad way, those social media's that you mention is secured enough to place your data and that is the reason why they are called social media.

Those are scary. they can use our data for their own interest. but we can not avoid them completely. they are around us right now, we only can hope governments will give justice for us about our privacy safety.

but in short answer,  those don't scare me, because they can not use me, because I have no valuable thing to use.  ;D ;D

There are many of those, but I personaly have nothing such special to hide from anybody, so whatever, I dont care. They will this or another way anyway gather your info.

Even recently there is news that says if there is a leak of data on facebook, I personally have long left facebook and other social media after know this forum, so I need not be afraid of this incident.

The government doesn't care about your wellbeing. They only see privacy scandals as an opportunity to fill up their pockets by handing over hefty penalties to social media sites. You can largely avoid social media if you so wish, but it's almost impossible to prevent Google from swallowing nearly everything you do on the internet, especially so if you have no clue about what's going on. Ignorance is the most dangerous aspect of the modern world when it comes to the internet and maintaining your privacy -- people throughout all the years haven't learned much in that regard, which is a damn shame. At some point in the future there probably isn't such a thing as privacy on the internet anymore -- everyone's profile has been stored on servers for ever and gets updated consistently.


Your profile is all they need. It's worth more for them than you think. ;)

Amazon is not really scary they are just keeping track of what you purchase with them and as long as you do not buy anything controversial then you're fine, in my opinion the worst offenders are Facebook, Apple, Google and Microsoft, Apple and Microsoft have created operative systems that track you in everything you do, while Google products and Facebook products track also everything you do in your everyday life, that is why I avoid products of those companies.

No one can say how they use our personal details and our transaction details in recent days facebook was in a big trouble so social sites and apps are not in private stage so we cannot share personal details on any sites.

Well, if you are not doing anything bad and just don't care about KYCs then there won't be much problems here. But for people that always wanted privacy and anonymity then consider these large companies that are based in powerful countries like the US, China, Russia and maybe the UK too and some others to have your information taken already or stored for future purposes. These countries are the ones ruling the different parts of the world and they want to make sure everything is under control.

Of course we need to be alert to all those platforms, because our data security is not necessarily maintained in those platforms, we should start now to keep our personal data from all platforms because they fear that they will misuse our data for some people who ultimately lead to harm to us.

Facebook had an issue later about data leak in U.S.A. and I do believe that it is possible that Facebook can gather information about you through their site. Just imagine if you are keeping over million of dollars in your crypto wallet and they decided to look into your account even look deep into your personal info just to gain access on your crypto wallet.

There are news that tackles about how the facebook entered the private messages and manipulate the election. In almost 9 years of using facebook, this is just the year that I am scared to hide my pictures and other stuffs in facebook speciall my crypto related stuffs. Facebook chain messages last day was triggered me also and in fact, I shared it to my family in order for them to become aware about what is happening in facebook. But it seems the chain message was just a full of lies and I was fooled by the chain message.

facebook is the most evidently scary. they already have most of our information. have admitted that they have been hacked a couple of times. google is scary as well as they keep track of our locations when our data and locations are turned on

I do not use Amazon or Facebook, so they can not scare me. Facebook was known for sharing your personal data since many years, so it was your own fault. The name itself should scare you away! And Amazon is another US company that surely shares your personal data and in this case even with your personal address also! But most people will simply say that they have nothing to hide and anyway do not care much.

i honestly do not use amazon, and there is no personal data on facebook, so there is no reason for me to be afraid with the issue of data collection in social media. because it is very risky when we store important data on facebook

Google are one of these kinds of company. They collect all data including location, search history, conversation, pictures, almost everything in your phone. Google is the master influencer in every online purchase. Once you search something in Google, your social media site will instantly flooded you all kinds of advertising related to your item you have search until you become hook on that piece.  Google watches our entire life without giving us a break.

everything online is vulnerable to hacks, for small time bitcoin holders this is not much of an issue, but maybe the million worth of account is, these social medias are based on our own preference. ads are the results of out online history, just like in facebook, our data is being collected for the purpose of future online ease. it was intended to assist human, what we click has millions of probabilities that describe what kind of user are we, based on our emotional and and interest, that is why think before we click.

if  internet knows you cat living,i use the hidden data about the geographic location of the photo is taken in which i share in the published photos of our cats on sites like facebook or instagram and other social media networks that works in our social media. .

Those that say that they have nothing to hide are the ones that bother me the most, most people do not have any kind of big secret that they want to hide but yet you still have some need of privacy, however that seems to have been forgotten now that people publish all their lives in social media all the time.

Well somehow yes, there are companies today who are tracking you because of the huge amount of coins you are holding and they might check your address because of the amount of coins you have today.

There are many who say that Facebook has been exposed to user information. There are a lot of junk applications on facebook that need to log in with people's accounts. user information is a simple matter for hackers. They will easily get information from everyone

I think facebook can keep an eye on our movements when the online location and everything can be tracked from facebook. And I think facebook is a horrible little company

Indeed, it is scary to think that those companies have ways in tracking us. But, if one would read the agreement in every single one of those social media companies, the information provided by it's users are not mandatory, so it is the users responsibility because he or she was the who put it there in the first place.

They are all intrusive and although I know it I don’t really care. Apps like snapchat are used to scan your face into the system with the “filters”. Although apps like facebook I do believe are most intrusive they monitor everything you do and say. So they can relate ads to you and use it against you.

How about google? It collects more data than Facebook like search history and even the locations you've been.

google really scares me as google does keeps track on you locations. especially if the location options on you device is enabled.

I myself experienced great fear tehadap internet, especially social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others. Worrying if my personal data in the account is misused by irresponsible party. However, I have confidence that big media media like Facebook, Amazon and as I mentioned have good and secure data security.

I believe that facebook is a business that is very influential on bitcoin. because facebook is able to see anyone who uses bitcoin clearly. so we also need to be careful of facebook.

Those that say that they don't have anything to cover up are the ones that trouble me the most.individuals don't have any sort of enormous mystery that they need to stow away yet despite everything you have some need of privacy.however that appears to have been overlooked now that individuals distribute every one of their lives in online networking constantly.

To me, GOOGLE on line services encompasses a lot more than what any one could imagine and spread all over every facet of life and covers every nooks and crannies of the world. This Global world of Google is somehow scary if we can put it that way.

yeah correct. i scare about sharing my private informations in social media sites such as facebook and twitter. in any case they can be shared with third parties for bad purposes. it is very risky for everybody.

With the news about the data leak in Facebook? I would say social media apps are really scary. But then again, i feel that having tens and thousands of companies lining up to place their ads in these social media apps are enough. Data selling maybe is something they didn't want to do and most likely have been strong armed to do it. Or maybe they're just greedy bastards that needs to go to jail.

I think it depends on us. If we upload all of our personal data and activities in social media will jeopardize our safety. if the data is leaked and accessed by the person who hates us. and the presence of social media will make you a selfish person because we only always focus on the looks and opinions of netizens. No concern with the environment and his family. But if we use social media just to find old friends who never meet or to trade online. Personal data and daily activities we do not uplode in social media. So the social media presence is not something scary but profitable.

To ensure that your personal data is not used do not give them to third parties, and you will not have any problems.

I do not know which companies are scared of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The only thing I know that there are many companies working to learn and make their own cryptocurrencies. I think that the cryptocurrency give people new chances and opportunities 

as far as I know now facebook is more emphasis on us that they do not want to advertise bitcoin in it, because chances are, according to them, bitcoin it is very risky to progress facebook which is now been developed so big.

My country is the biggest facebook users in the world and we spend time taking posts , comments like for about 10hrs a day i think. Its a time killing app for us and if we are gonna be afraid of something with data, that would be facebook for sure. Next is twitter.

Facebook I think is the most because of connections  you are expose to many people that can hack or get the information they needed, they may easily have access to you considering they are open also to many posting, comments etc.

I use facebook until now and I think it is a little scary.I think all social media account had connections coz when I used other social media the thing I search in that website will also appear on fb.It seems they know what you are doing or having.In facebook also it tracks where you are and even faces.But even its still scary I still use it coz as of now nothing bad happened through using facebook.

For me Facebook is the most scary companies that lots of people using it in their daily life by just posting their activities. Facebook is the one that we can stored our memories, moments and some private messages that can easily hack if someone wants to get some of our private information or data that can be used to black mail one person. So thats the thing that scary me about facebook.

I agree with you fellow. Social media is the most intrusive, the facebook, twitter, instagram and others. It is really scary since those brilliant ones uses their wit in intruding a person's personal lives.

I think Google is a horrible company, and in terms of the amount of data already stored, I think Google is unbeatable.

Because they can be very clear about your lifestyle, what websites you've visited, what types of things you're interested in.

I think Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, because people can upload fake news and some videos that are not suitable for kids, they cannot stop also those fake accounts that spread malicious ads and comments.

In my opinion, it is not scary for a company to look at a small detail that we value a big one, although there are many scams at the moment. Most companies still have their own companies and do not cheat on you

More often than not individuals are interwoven with the web, so our protection is imperiled with this innovation. What unnerve me the most with this consistently developing advancement of innovation is that it generally ready to screen our day by day online exercises that appeared to be private. However, there is nothing we can do to stop this advancement in light of the fact that as I said before, we are entwined with the web. We need to live with it particularly now that bitcoin made up for lost time with this innovation.

yes, I also agree with you, with advertising strategy dai facebook, which evidently always eye our activity when surfing the internet, must always appear ads related to our activity, whether it can be stopped?

Those who are scared of crypto currencies must be loan or insurance companies I believe. Otherwise others don’t need to fear this technology at all rather they can make millions from it if they give their customers choice of clearing all bills in bitcoin. May be those who are involved in keeping data of people are panicked because bitcoin is giving people an authority of keeping their transactions totally private.

The world is going crazy, transferring all its human resources, including communication, to the Internet sphere. Soon they will start creating families through social networks. The government will continue to monitor the people and do nothing to improve their welfare!

Facebook is the fastest thing to track your locations since every day we are posting our daily post with the nearest place of us so people know where you are because of your caption and your background, so you need to be careful when providing information in your post for security purposes also.

All of them are scary. If their business isn't selling your information like Facebook or Google, it's using your information to sell you things directly like Amazon.

All of that info can be weaponised against you. As it stands your credit rating can make or break the way you run your life. If all of your other habits start to count then we're all fucked.

China's social credit system is where we're going to end up with this but it'll repackaged to make you feel like you're doing something positive by ignoring that pal with low social credit.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/china-social-credit-system-punishments-rewards-explained-a8297486.html

I think facebook is the scariest company because they sell our data to third party. Beside that, they recording our activities. I am already deactive my facebook account because they know my internet activities on my phone

I'm sure when you register an account on Facebook, twitter and amazon you are required to approve the rules of their company, they are a big company so people like us who are even not famous people, they will not take our data, imagining someone having my personal data and abusing it was a little scary.

Let the people choose to decide whether they still trust the mentions companies or not. Personally I trust them because I know they will not let the people suffer. They will not destroy their good name for just a simple things. Maybe at the future they will launch their own coin in the market.

Although i don't really like the idea of selling those data or personal information for their own sake and to earn more money, i am not really sure if it did really happen or what. Yes it is scary to think that it is an unreliable application and site to use, but to think also that plenty of people wants facebook to be closed or permanently shut down is also scary. Personally i don't really think that sites are scary, yes it is a bit but what's the most scariest is that how the people think or should we conclude their mentality is the most scariest.

There are several big internet social media's who can actually advertise cryptocurrency like facebook and twitter but they suddenly ban all cryptocurrency related advertisements.

I think you are right. I was to say Facebook is the most intrusive of all but then you said Google and it had me thinking how much we all use Google every day. One day, Facebook will close but it will be very hard to get rid of Google. Besides we use it for work and leisure so the amount of data it collects from users is massive.

While some people will say Facebook is really scary or other similar companies I disagree because you can avoid using them, it is not like they are forcing you to use their services, I really think that the most scary companies when it comes to the internet are the internet service providers or ISP since they know everything about you and you cannot avoid to have to use one.

I am not afraid of the companies that have some of my data like facebook or twitter. I am more afraid of individuals that might use my data to either harm me or to make fraudulent activities posting as me, it is already been proven by many stalkers and people who want to scam other people. Imagine have a case filed to you without you doing anything or having been blackmailed of the personal information that you do not want to be leaked.

I get a little creeped out when my phone knows my schedule and tells me how long it will take to drive home from where I am. I know some of these notifications are coming from Google but I think some of them are from Apple as well.

I don't like it. If I want to know traffic conditions, I'll look it up myself, thank you.

They dont scare me but they are the one who knows lot more things about me than myself. They track the activities and know what I like, what I eat and when I order. All this is because of the cookies stuff. They get stored and tracked later on and thus my whole browser gets filled with the advertisement that are relevant to my likes. I guess this is big strategy by these players to lure us so that we can buy more from them and keep ourselves as their permanent customers. Its not scary but its like having our whole biodata with is kind of nervous feeling and feels like someone knows too much about us and steal our money that way. lol on that.

Every company and corporation in the world has their own way of developing in different areas and the competition is extremely tough. The disappearance of this company is the opportunity for other companies to grow and develop stronger. I think that the terrible rejection of today's large corporations is the reason for the very positive development of companies that do not want to stay behind.

I don't think big companies like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, do anything to scare their members because everyone trusts them. Therefore they are not worried that the data will be misused. If the company prohibits crytocurrency-related advertising, it's 100% business oriented, because they wait and see about cryptocurrency. Cryptocurreny is a digital currency that can someday become a payment instrument worldwide.

We have biggest example of such breach from the well known company like Facebook and I am sure that everyone will have the same opinion as of mine. Dont forget that they used our personal data publicly to share with the third parties and this was confirmed by the Mark himself. Not only this I do believe that other companies like Amazon, Twitter, and Google are using our day to day activities to track our movement and know what we like and what we dont like. Depending upon which they do make changes to how the internet looks like to us and thus its kind of use of info itself. But may be no one says anything about it as it comes under user agreement and thus we ourselves giving them permission to use it.

This is scary when our data is owned by the company, because it can be misused. But what else do we have to do because every time we make a transaction such as a home or car loan, the loan company must ask for our personal data. Without that, credit cannot be given. So, for me there is no problem as long as it is not misused.

That is not entirely true, i mean ,the part where you can avoid using facebook. Their widgets are everywhere and can track your activity even if you are not using facebook.

For the rest i agrre completely with ISP and add that they can be easily forced by law to reveal the traffic of some individual if needed.

Actually all are risky, your infos are needed and people will come to  know your privte infos and other details of your life. You need to be very careful then to how you wpuld disclose your identity.

I think big company will take benefits from cryptocurrency. Big internet company must be adapting cryptocurrency on their platform and i think they not afraid on crypto development. Its good for them to adapt rather than againts crypto because they have a lot user that involve in cryptomarket

It's been already on the talks in which google, for instance, is using tracker that is tracking us and use our personal data. That's really sound so scary as we know that this action is clearly a breach to data privacy and if not, this tracker annoys me with such advertisements of products related to my interests.

We can not blame fo this situations that there are really companies which is scared of accepting and collaborating with bitcoin and other cryptocutrency, this is because they think that cryptocurrency are not yet fully accepted worldwide and not all companies are honoring the cryptocurrency technology.

There has been the scare by most banks and they are used to scare with the intention that cryptocurrencies will overtake the activities of their investments and others.

I think oil companies are quite scary. We are talking about the company that drills earth to make money, that fraks or whatever that is to make profits, that spills oil all over the ocean and just pay a fine like that would fix something and still cause the earth to get closer to death one more day with each day they work.

These companies are the reason for us to be in this mess and why we are starting look for mars or whatever to run away from earth. Earth is literally sick, it created a fever, it will sweat first but it will kill all the things that causes it to be sick -us- and get better afterwards.

I think Facebook is the scariest of them all. collecting your personal data with you agreeing with it without you knowing. it happens the moment you make an account. below list is the list of scary things about facebook.
1. FACEBOOK CAN USE YOUR PICTURE FOR WHATEVER IT WANTS
2. FACEBOOK CAN KEEP COPIES OF IMAGES YOU DELETE
3. FACEBOOK CAN SELL YOUR FACE FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES

I think it has become a natural thing if there are some companies that feel scared if there is bitcoin and a lot of bitcoin circulation that will make the country or group unable to commit corruption or other bad things.

I'd think facebook is scsry for me because i myself am a heavy user of it and almost all my apps are synced up to it so I don't need to enter my passwords all the time. That being said, there is alot of pertinent dta there about me. Although this data in itself is not important, but combined with others, it's dangerous.

Twitter was a bit scary few months. I believe they listens to conversations under the pretext of serving personalized advertisements?  I mentioned a rare word and found it later in my twitter feed as advertisement. I think they stopped this though or maybe because I covered most of the openings on my phone with tapes. .

almost all digital and internet-based sites are intrusive and we dont know how but they can be, among others, facebook is the most obvious, they have ads based on your past searches and make ads suggestions based on your profiles and posts, seems helpful because what you can see on your wall is tailored according to you preferrences, but somehow intrusive if we dig deeper and further investigate facebook.

There is actually no social media platform or website where you have shared your data before that cannot get compromised as far as I am concerned.

Now that everything is digital, you apply for jobs online, you put up applications for a lot of things, you get to register on different platforms for some reasons, and then social media is the in thing, then, with all these kind of things, you data is bound to get leaked from any angle at all, so in this case, I would say this is one of the exposure that the internet brings and it is only left for each individual to know what they want to share and where they want to share it.

It is truly scary to put all of your information to those kind of internet companies like facebook. I just don't include all of the information of myself there.

If we're just talking about the three (amazon, facebook and twitter) then I'd say Facebooks has the biggest threat because of all the information they got on us, pictures, conversations and browsing history. Besides that, Facebook has connections with other apps so yhe information they would get from it is pretty dangerous in the wrong hands.

You better watch out bro! You are being monitored and your data is being collected across board. ;D Just kidding though! However, it is still something you always have to take into consideration when it comes to data and with some of the news we have heard in the past about Facebook selling the user's data to highest bidders which to me is highly unethical.

Sure, we can say we share data everywhere and as long as we are on the internet, data are prone to be leaked sometimes, if it gets into the wrong hands, but whichever way, in this case, what can we really do about it?

We can simply do nothing about it. Those data aren't really concerning. The data social media are selling are things like how much teenagers are spending time online or what are the things do they like. Those are data that are collected by your activity by using social media. It's all for marketing so companies would know if what they are selling are going to hit the market or not. If your concerns are your whereabouts, you still have control over your fingers and what you post on social media so pretty much you can just NOT post where you are instead. People like using the hashtag #atm which is quite dangerous in most cases since you might have a stalker especially if you are a girl.

At the end of the day, we really can't do anything about it since social media has become a normal thing in our society. If you don't have a social media, people see you as a hermit or a weirdo. We will always use social media and the key is to not post everything. Be mindful of what you put out there because what you put out on the Internet is there forever.

Amazon is the most scary company in the whole world. You can talk about oil companies and finance companies all you want but regulations are getting tighter and tighter for them, the more mistakes they do the more punishments and taxes they are getting and after 2008 the finance world has been getting much more careful and conservative whereas after BP oil breach on ocean the oil companies are much more careful as well.

Yet here is amazon, whose workers DIED on company work, whose workers pee on cups so they don't have to go to toilet, whose workers have feet problems from walking 12km A DAY EVERYDAY. I mean amazon is as horrible as it gets, there are many other stuff that casts a bad shadow on them as well.

In a transaction such as a bank, car, home loan application, our data must be copied as a requirement, and that doesn't matter. In the internet era, all social media and application owners always ask for our data. And that doesn't matter. The problem is when our data is sold to certain parties for bad purposes, where we as data owners do not know anything.

We have to careful what we share. Social media sites also collect info about us without our knowledge. At first look, you may think that it is okey but this info can be used against you even after many years.

Yes, Amazon is the scariest company by far.  The government is helping them succeed with tax breaks. Jeff Bezos even works with the CIA!  All those Alexa devices and Amazon tablets are spying on us and recording all our information so it can be sold or used against us.

I know people who have worked at Amazon, the conditions are horrible.  They are constantly being yelled at to work faster and they really do have to pee in bottles, this is not a myth.

Google is also very intruisive. They can even monitor what are you talking about and post commercials adequate to your words.

Same in business, there are many frauds and scams which we need to stay away but, the Facebook is the best platform for any business ad for now.

Facebook, social medias is one of the sources of the news now and by the Facebook people can easily share news and videos to the public,

Without any filter of this post, the world can be ruin with fake news, the facebook should implement such rules and with just 1 Fake news account is banned and those new Facebook profile can't post anything within a period of time.

of course Facebook becomes a strategic social media, because i think it is a social media with the most users. then it would be better indeed to filter the news from element of lies, so as not to poison many people

Simple you don't want to put anything in it to make you a lot of trouble. But since facebook has been in the senate I think it is more safer to use it now.

In my opinion. the company maintains the confidentiality of data from customers. they will not commit data theft or data piracy of a customer who has trusted their site. but we must remain vigilant to manage our data in their applications so that our data remains safe. and we must be careful when we fill in the data on their site.

If Facebook have been able to get personal data from its users without authorization from them I don't think a Senate hearing is going to make it safer to use now. They will just use another way to collect the data that they want without anyone knowing. Facebook is the most dangerous company on this planet.

all online companies are frightening if they misuse our personal data that we register,
but they are very protective of the privacy of their users.

From the very start, everything we input in the computer has the chance to get hack and no one can avoid about it. We just need to be vigilant and be very careful when inputing our data. Let's just hope that the good will always be on top and more programmers will develop about the safe of our data.

The use of personal data must be strictly controlled. There were several cases where after participating in the ICO, KYC data was publicly available.

Sometimes i wonder about that as well. I'm kinda afraid how my data and privacy will be used. It doesn't matter if it's for my own good, but well company needs money as well, and i heard that selling our data is not a strange thing anymore to get money.
As long as they don't sell my data for something bad, or suddely involve me in a terrible things. I think it's okay. But it should be better if they keep our privacy and data safe because i would appreciate it more.

Yes Facebook wouldn’t do such things like selling users info etc., but are you aware that Facebook accounts can be hacked? Although I don’t know if it can be hacked when you’re using 2fa, but accounts without 2fa has been hacked several times thereby giving the hackers charge over your account, which means they are able to go through information that you have set to private. So it’s still not safe on Facebook, keep your private life to yourself and not to the public.

I'm not afraid of any of these companies, as well as any other companies. It all depends on the people themselves, how much information they provide about themselves. We need to fear not the company, but ourselves. For example, when we are going on vacation, we post a photo from the airport, then from the hotel. And thus we make it clear that our housing is currently empty. So this information can be used by some dishonest people. And it is much more real.

The tech giants are spying on all of us (Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook).  I don't believe what Zuckerberg said at the hearing, your data is stored even if you delete your facebook account.  The sad thing is most people don't care enough to do anything.  We are all knowingly carrying around spy devices (phones) that track our every move and what we say.

Facebook takes record of every of your activities on their platform, although it’s a way for them to know what you’re interested in and be able to place targeted ads. But if you ask me, I would say that every social platform or online platforms are the same, and you should mind what information you’re giving to them. Any platform can get hacked and hackers can steal your information and use it against you. So limit the information you’re giving.