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<h2> The true end of social networks.</h2>
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Most people think that companies like Facebook and Google are technology companies, they are actually information traffic companies which means that they use technology as a vehicle to control the trail and data of end users.
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To start diminishing this we need to think of social media platforms and intrusive apps on our phones as surveillance and data mining platforms that allow these developers to mine and analyze end-user data for profit. economic, that is the business to which they dedicate themselves.
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Using technology to collect as much information about the end user as possible, the apps allow developers to monitor end users while collecting more than 5,000 highly sensitive data points associated with users' personal, medical, legal, and employment information. end users this surveillance and data extraction is indiscriminate which means that it is carried out 24 hours a day and seven days a week.
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The apps on your phone always have control of your camera and microphone and this allows the developer to collect things like your text messages, your emails, your calendar, etc. at the same time they couple to your sensors like your accelerometer to Being able to perform audio, video and also physical surveillance on you is how they make money.
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When you connected to Facebook before Facebook proliferated on mobile devices they could only monitor you when on your computer but now that it is on your mobile phone through the application on your mobile phone the developers or creators of that application can monitor you and extract data only when the application is on your phone, it is not while you are on the platform, it is while the application is active on your Smartphone and this is linked to other devices.
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For the first time in history we see companies weaponize their products against end users in order to exploit them for financial gain which means that platforms are basically built to turn the end user into a product, which can be monetized and exploited for profit. before we had something free like a Facebook account this was before cell phones proliferated and mobile devices exchanged your personal information to be on Facebook and Facebook collected that information when you were connected and the information was related to what you did on Facebook and the consumer information it could collect about you.
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So they made targeted ads, that is, for you to buy things, this model no longer exists, they only monitor you and extract data through products and services that we pay for, like our smartphones or computers or connected vehicles or smart TVs, all these products they cost us money so now we are paying for the products and not getting anything in return for free.
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In exchange for collecting all our personal information in our commercial information, they package it, monetize it and earn money.
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The problem with this is not that we application and platform developers can do this, the problem that we are seeing today regarding privacy and cybersecurity is the fact that application developers from nation states or companies from countries like China and Russia are creating these apps like Tiktok and WeChat these two social media apps are the most popular in the world, they're overtaking Facebook and so on and so on. So we're seeing a proliferation of these Chinese and Russian app developers and platforms.
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