Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)
Long-overdue legislation and increased activism, including activism by the tech community, and ongoing informing of consumers about dangers of sharing their data, are some of the possible mitigation steps.<p>A simple first step: send an article on digital privacy, that  you like, to your network and invite them to get back to you with questions they have. A possible start: EFF have an excellent privacy hub <a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy</a><p>I have taken a case study with my teen about people loosing careers after facebook flame-wars; and being hauled in by police on face-recognition and geolocation data. We have a discussion at least once a month about the cyber-dystopia we find ourselves in.<p>As I posted before, I'll just leave this here:<p>1. "It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases. The next time you pay for a burrito with your credit card, Facebook will learn about this transaction and match this credit card number with the one you added in Messenger.<p>In other words, Messenger is a great Trojan horse designed to learn everything about you."<p>[1] <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/facebook-knows-literally-everything-about-you/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/facebook-knows-literally-e...</a> From 2018!<p>2. "Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff.<p>Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores [...] Privacy advocates said few people understand that their purchases are being analyzed in this way"<p>[2] <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23/google-now-knows-when-you-are-at-a-cash-register-and-how-much-you-are-spending/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23...</a> From 2017!<p>Consumer data is the gold the consumer appears to be giving away, unwittingly or carelessly, regardless of the regime or geographic location.