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Big tech doesn’t care about your data: It’s just "privacy washing"!
As people around the world become more aware of the importance of protecting their data & privacy, big tech corporations like Google and Apple adapt to appear privacy focused; welcome to "privacy washing"!
And as we all know Google, tracks just about everything we do online, it collects our locations, scans our emails and even creates extremely accurate user profiles about us to target us with advertisements about things we are more likely to buy. Meta owned Threads is the Big tech’s latest social media app that collects unjustified amounts of personal user data like your sexual orientation, political opinions, and ethnicity among a lot more. After coming under scrutiny in the EU and facing many scandals over mishandling user data, one would think big-tech Meta would try to make privacy focused changes, but with the release of Threads, it shows otherwise.
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