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I care what Cory Doctrow has to say about William Gibson in the same way that I care about what Britney Spears thinks of Ella Fitzgerald.

And, again, it doesn't matter if you use it or not because they are building and selling profiles for everyone, not just their own userbase. Look into facebook shadow profiles.

This is a terrible idea. If it were up to me I'd ban phones in cars entirely until self driving cars are a thing.

"On computer systems" has a hollower ring now than it did a decade ago. Everything is on a computer system now. Even face to face interactions leave a plethora of metadata behind. …

Facebook has built a platform that's much more accurate and comprehensive than anything experian has, because experian isn't in the business of selling your political beliefs and s…

It doesn't matter, they are still building a profile on you and selling it. These are called "shadow profiles".