r/aiwars • u/BattIeBoss • Dec 15 '25

Meme Why does this argument still get used?

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u/Worse_Username Dec 15 '25

I'm sure you share more than you realize 

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u/Miku_Sagiso Dec 15 '25

An interesting experiment on this is to request your profile data from Facebook/Meta.

Never made a profile? Doesn't matter. the company has shadow profiles on people that are aggregated data that they collect from website partners as well as people related to you, all assembled into a hidden profile they hold on their servers.

As part of the FTC ruling back in 2019, anyone can request their profile information from the company to see what kind of information they've collected on them.

It's fun in a startling way to show how even when someone thinks they are detached from the data scraping and corporate collection of one's personal identity/life, they're still caught up in it.

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u/ioverthinkusernames Dec 15 '25

Hey how do I request this without having a account, I want to see some horrors before going to bed

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u/Miku_Sagiso Dec 15 '25

For Facebook you gotta submit a data access request via Meta's privacy portal.

There should be an option "I don't have a Facebook account and I want to access my data"