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People should be aware of the fact that what they do will be sold to advertisers. I'm not going to go as far as to support legislature that enforces this awareness, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the next couple of decades that this idea is thrown around by lawmakers.

I wouldn't be surprised if lawmakers set to make it so everyone had the right to make sure their information was not sold to advertisers.

I'm personally under the impression that regulation causes more problems than it solves in the majority of situations so I'm hoping that the industry self-regulates and companies like Facebook and Twitter allow me to pay for their services and opt-out of their business of selling my private information to others.

I'm not really sure why you defined "customer" for me. I never said that Facebook and Twitter users are currently customers, but that they should be.

It is dishonest to have the business taking place "on the back end" of things and to purposefully hide such transactions from people.

I also find it arrogant to think that it is advantageous to shield such financial complexity from people because they don't want to think about it or won't understand it.

So if Facebook and Twitter want to continue to be dishonest and arrogant companies, by all means, let them continue, but I think it will be part of their ultimate demise, either from increased consumer awareness on topics such as information privacy and digital identity, or from legislation.




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