“…deceptively copying user data is the economic basis for a great many, if not most, Facebook, Android and Twitter apps — a fact that is well known in the industry.”

Julian Assange calling it like it is. If you are not purchasing the product, you are the product.

“While the media is focusing on Republican and Democrat campaigns sucking people’s records out of Facebook, deceptively copying user data is the economic basis for a great many, if not most, Facebook, Android and Twitter apps — a fact that is well known in the industry.

If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product. This economic model, of creating attractive bait for people to put their data in (Facebook, Gmail, Android, Twitter, etc.), is referred to by academics as surveillance capitalism. Now turbo charged by the rise of AI.”

While the media is focusing on Republican and Democrat campaigns sucking people's records out of Facebook, deceptively copying user data is the economic basis for a great many, if not most, Facebook, Android and Twitter apps — a fact that is well known in the industry.

— #FreeAssange! (tweets by campaign)⌛ (@JulianAssange) March 20, 2018

h/t yokouma