Richard Stallman: Facebook is a surveillance monster that feeds on our data

Richard Stallman - RT

En an interview on the RT news channel with Richard Stallman, programmer, free software activist and instigator of the GNU project in 1983, suggested that "Facebook is a surveillance monster" that feeds our personal data.

According to Richard Stallman, there is no question about it. Facebook is a great "monitoring engine" to fear, because the company has a huge amount of data on every person who interacts with its platforms, even if it was only once.

The collection of personal data is today the main activity of social networks, since it allows them to categorize their users and offer them the services they may need.

Facebook should only be used to connect people once

In recent years, concerns have been raised about the security of this data and the privacy of users when the number of scandals to which the names of these companies are linked has increased significantly, including Facebook. .

For Stallman, the thing is very clear, a platform like Facebook shouldn't exist, because it is not very useful to the world, but it becomes a daily threat to the safety of those who use it.

Richard Stallman has analyzed the services offered by Facebook and said in the interview that the only thing he thinks might be a little useful on the platform is that you can get in touch with many people, other than that, the rest does not matter, he says.

From Richard's point of view, these kinds of platforms should, in normal times, simply serve to connect with the people who want it and once this is done "you should no longer use them to communicate with your recipient."

As This can be done through another communication system of your choice, in this case safer.

He talked about the fact that the longer you stay on Facebook, the more you are encouraged to provide more and more data about yourself and the more you end up being the merchandise that Facebook and its people sell.

“You see, Facebook's business model is to pressure people to continue to communicate through Facebook and give personal information to Facebook.

That's what makes Facebook a surveillance monster. Facebook has no users, but in fact, Facebook uses people.

I am not one of them. I have never had a Facebook account and never will. Facebook is even spying on people who don't have an account, "he said.

The collection and sale of data is already out of control

Why should people care about the data that social media collects about them?

When asked this question by RT, Stallman replied that:

"Facebook personalizes people and this information is used to manipulate them and to know exactly what they want to know or not."

Stallman went a step further by stating that thanks to this dominance over data, Facebook is used to commit racial discrimination in job and housing offers, and therefore can harm the population in many ways.

Also, he continues, the US government, at its discretion, may decide to collect all of this data at any time and learn much more about people.

What he has tried to explain is that now there are "data brokers"as there are stockbrokers on Wall Street to encourage stock market operations.

For example, big data companies like Google and Facebook, each with a large amount of data about people, They sell them through data intermediaries. This process allows brokers to study the data they have to know the real identities of people.

When these entities take possession of this data, He says, they are aware of his activities on Facebook, on Google and on Twitter, his Uber trip log, etc.

And finally, they put everything together to draw conclusions.

For Stallman, the situation has reached a critical point and things are not likely to improve, because it is assumed that those who buy this data do not know that information about people.

Source and full interview: https://www.rt.com


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