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Hellllooooo Privacy is Relative when You Get Something in Return By Andy Marken Years ago, we went online and “visited” the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney. And like Stew Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, advocated; perusing all of that great information was free. But as Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder, advocated; it was also expensive. We did have to give them “a little bit of our information” so we could spend hours in the library coming and going at will and staying as long as we wanted … for free. We are pretty certain you know what Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg said back in 2010 when he launched his social network back in Harvard. When he was asked why people would give him all their personal information, he flippantly said, “I don’t know why, they ‘trust me.” Of course, he walked back the statement of a cocky 19-year-old and made a savvy move … he changed the company name to Meta. But Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter (X), TikTok and the thousands of other social media sites around the globe follow the same free/expensive business philosophy … use it for free and we’ll make it up on the backend. It’s not that service providers didn’t advise users that they were going to gather some of their user/use information and that it might be used. After all, it was clearly spelled out somewhere in the long, ambiguous, boring, confusing user agreement that went on for