Now now, they don’t “steal” it, they just “collect” it. All this data falls off the back of a truck, they just pick it up.
It seems like people here tend to think of ad profiles as the only data that matters, but Facebook "collects" messages you post and photos you upload, just like most email services "collect" all your emails. This kind of data is far more sensitive than your ad profile.
Yes and no.
certainly people share and post sensitive stuff on Facebook. But Facebook knowing I've visited certain categories of websites because those sites have a Facebook pixel or they're running a third party widget that has a FB pixel is historically a much more opaque form of data collection.
The cynic in me would say: store all data on EU soil ;)