Today around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated worldwide per day and around three quarters of this staggering amount comes from individuals. Once created, these data practically live forever. You can face this fact on the face image search engine pimeves.com, a database that shows where photos of you have ended up online.

A number of giant corporations closely track online consumer behavior so they can sell the information to advertisers and marketing companies.

Many people share their personal details online, and internet cookies track every click they make.

Such information gives companies unprecedented insight into consumers, the better to target them.

Even if consumers don't object to the use of the information, they should still have the opportunity to know all the uses to which it is put.

Almost any type of data can be used, like a fingerprint, to identify the person who created it.

Your choice of movies on Netflix, the location signals emitted by a mobile phone even your gait as recorded by a surveillance camera.

The problem is that the algorithms act autonomously. They impact people's lives, and whether they are right or wrong, no human is there to second-guess them.

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https://www.solutionreporters.com/2022/12/16/does-the-internet-know-more-about-me-than-i-know-about-myself/

You are Right.

There is a lot of profit to be made from selling other people's personal data.




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