Facebook Is Using You

Today we read a article about how you can be tracked by people. The article is called "Facebook Is Using You" but only a small part of the article is about facebook. The article starts out by telling you that facebook filed documents with the government allowing it to sell shares of stock to the public. Facebook has 845 million users and has made 3.2 billion in advertising revenue last year. That is only 85 percent of the revenue made. Then the article goes on to tell you about Google and how much it has made. Google made 36.5 billion in advertising revenue. Whenever you search something on the search engine, an advertisement that is similar to what you search will show up. I find that kind of creepy. An advertisement responding to my searches creeps me out.
Then argue goes on to finally get to the main point, that material found online can be used against you. The material has been used against people battling for child custody of trying to defend themselves in criminal cases.
The article says, "LexisNexis has a product called Accurint for Law Enforcement, which gives government agents information about what people do on social networks. The Internal Revenue Service searches Facebook and Myspace for evidence of tax evaders' incomeand whereabouts, and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has been known to scrutinize photos and posts to confirm family relationships or weed out of fake marriages." That totally sucks. It just shows that I have no privacy, except for in my home. Unless, they are being creey and watching us there too.
The lady who wrote the article thinks that there should be a law against being able to be tracked. I agree with her, there should be a law to protect people's privacy.