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You are not a person to the internet. You are a browsing history. A location trail. A purchase pattern. A collection of clicks, swipes, and searches that tell a story about you — written by someone else, for someone else's profit. They don't need your name. They don't need your face. They just need your data. And they already have it. You've been turned into a product so quietly that you didn't even notice it happening. See what they see & try for free at serus.ai

Did you know, Facebook lets you download all data they have stored about you? Most people have never done it. Here's how: Settings & Privacy → Settings → Your Information & Permissions → Export Your Information → Select "All Time" → Create Export It takes about an hour. When it's ready you have 4 days to download it. When you open it you'll find every message you've sent. Every photo you've uploaded. Every ad you've clicked. Every login location. Every device you've used. Every search you've ever made on the platform. Your call history. Your contact list. The games you've played. The apps you've connected & more. The file is usually 500 MB to over a gigabyte. One user's Google equivalent was 17 gigabytes. And that's only what they let you see. Facebook uses over 52,000 attributes to classify you — most of which don't appear in the download. That's not a social media profile. That's a surveillance archive. You should be aware of the bigger picture.

A company called Acxiom has 23,000 servers collecting data on 500 million people. Up to 3,000 data points per person. Income. Health. Family. Politics. They know more about you than most people in your life. You should at least be able to see what they see.

Duke University ran a 12-month study to find out how easy it is to buy personal data on US military personnel. They set up a fake website. Used a .asia domain. Hosted it on a server in Singapore. Then they contacted 12 US data brokers and asked to buy data on active-duty service members and veterans. Three of them said yes. No meaningful background checks. No verification. They bought names, home addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, health data, financial information, religion, marital status, and information about their children. Cost: $0.12 to $0.32 per person. The researchers noted that a foreign intelligence agency could do the same thing — and probably already has. If this is what a university can do with a fake website and a few hundred dollars, imagine what a state-level adversary can do with a budget.

By the time a child turns 13, advertising companies have collected an average of 72 million data points on them. Their location. Their interests. Their browsing habits. Their app usage. Their purchase behaviour. 73% of apps used by children are monetizing their personal data. 67% of apps played by 3 to 4 year olds are sharing device identifiers with third-party marketing companies. There's a law that's supposed to prevent this. It's called COPPA. It's been in place since 1998. It hasn't worked. Your toddler has a more detailed advertising profile than most adults had 10 years ago. And they've never consented to anything. We're building digital dossiers on children before they can spell their own name. At some point we really have to ask who this system is actually designed to protect.