RE: People Care About Data Privacy, and It's All Open Access on Steem... Uh Oh?
While the blockchain is open, so people should be aware of what they put on it...it's not the same. Facebook forces you to use your real name, or risk being banned...though they don't necessarily ban many people, unless they feel like it and wanna use that as an excuse. They also put their cookies and javascript EVERYWHERE on the web. You pretty much have to use a browser extension to block just Facebook's tracking. They also buy and sell data.
This all means that the amount of data Facebook has on you is potentially far more than you thought you were sharing.
Plus there's AI to examine everything you do on there. Though that is likely possible on here too.
So, facebook knows that you have a secret underwear fetish, what colors you have bought, and that you're closeted. Well, potentially anyway. In truth, they might just sell your data, or expose it through horrible app security, and actually not give a fuck about the fact that you wear women's shoes.
Yeah, the data tracking is greater. But anyone can grab the data here by accessing the chain. It's available for all to get, not just dependent on one company putting it out there.
Most of it's pretty much the same as any publicly available website. Facebook is a walled garden, part of the "deep web" that's not indexed by search engines, for a large part anyway, but that's actually not incredibly common. Many sites are completely open with their posts and activity. Some eventually get some form of "friends only" feature though.
You just have to scrape a site with a bot. Millions of blogs are like this.
The problem with Facebook is that they pretend like you can set your data to friends only, then expose it all to apps. At least with here, if you look into it, you know that you're putting everything on the chain and exposing it to the world.
This is why I really hate the movement on here pressuring people to expose themselves with their real names and faces. This isn't Facebook. This is a blockchain based blogging service. We need to be very aware of what we put on the chain...though all of us likely expose too much eventually.