What? You must be some sort of conspiracy theorist. Just be rational and extrapolate from your beliefs: if you admit that Facebook might do this, then why not Google, AT&T, Microsoft? There would be no end to it. Basically it would mean that all businesses are spying on you and handing the information over to the government.
I have complete faith that that is untrue based upon just the history of the last 5 years.
> We have the ability to protect ourselves and we should be using it.
I don't doubt that the technology exists, I just doubt the ability of the average person to be able to protect themselves. As someone who works in a technical field with decent computer literacy, I still have a hard time approaching this problem. Perhaps I'm just not as literate as I think I am.
I thought maybe after the last decade's revelations about the security apparatus, we might be beyond calling people who are a bit paranoid about their security "conspiracy theorists".
I have complete faith that that is untrue based upon just the history of the last 5 years.