“I have to say, it’s been mildly entertaining to follow the news in the last couple of years. There’s this new fascinating phenomenon that’s starting to repeat itself like a broken song stuck in a time loop… Yet, it’s very intriguing none the least.
The story goes like this: Every couple of weeks, some sort of news breaks about a shocking revelation that everybody knew all along but played that game where we pretend it was nothing but a wild conspiracy theory.”
I have to confess that when I wrote the above quote I had no idea for how long this strange phenomenon would keep going or if those revelations would start getting dealt with by some form of censorship.
For better or for worse, this phenomenon is still going strong as we just learned this week that both Facebook and Google are secretly tracking everyone’sexual prefrences through porn websites even those using private browsers.
Yet another thing that everybody knew all along, but pretended it’s just a wild conspiracy theory… Again.
So the question comes to mind: Am I going crazy, or this has got to be some kind of crime?
I mean... Everyone has the right to keep their intimate things private if they wished. It’s not only that you cannot secretly spy on people without their knowledge because that’s immoral and disgusting.
Imagine if somebody picks the locks of your front door, and installs a hidden camera without your knowledge, you would be upset would you not?
But how do you qualify someone who literally resort to nothing short than “hacking” someone’s device to track them through anonymous tabs, private browsers and VPN services.
There is no way they can possibly pretend that they’re getting consent.
So yes, it’s just another episode of our favorite series “Business as usal”but the question remains:
What do they do with all that data they collect? Do they just sell it raw? Or do they used that data to add your sexual preferences to those psycho-graphic profiles they have for everybody?
Come to think about it, this may well explain why Facebook left Cambrige Analytica operate with total impunity while they were forming their own psycho-graphic profiles. It wouldn’t be a stretch to assume that the two companies were exchanging information.
Either way, it’s just the world we live in today, so you better watch out when you're watching porn cause someone is definitely watching you.
