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It's been going on for a long long time. Why people are only concerned about it now is probably the most surprising part for me personally. It's not like this has been a secret, there have been articles about it for years.

The stuff those profiles, etc include though, and what they try to determine about us citizens... That's for us to never know. Could be, vulnerable subjects for psychological experiments, predictions as to whether someone is a criminal, terrorist, etc, could be blackmail for purposes of gaining leverage, probably all fueled by some janky ass ML algorithms. Who knows, that's the joy of it I guess, we never will.

>>thumbu+(OP)
Information and knowledge are emergent, meaning they have to be repeated over and over again before spreading to a majority of the populace. Most of which are not particularly interested.