It's not just Facebook. Your phone is tattling on you 24/7. ALPRs are recording where you drive. Browser fingerprinting is creating a profile on you even if you block ads and trackers. Short of never using a computer, there is no opt out anymore.
There's a difference between information that government and big tech is scraping and storing, vs information that is publicly available to literally any random person online to scrape.
Both are problems, but those are different discussions and we started with talking about the issue of truly publicly available information. I think that's an interesting topic that merits its own discussion without falling into the surveillance discussion once again.
There is an interesting discussion to be had about what it means for information to be public, since public information is also now _searchable_ information, which never used to be the case. What are the implications for that when it comes to laws about what constitutes "public" information, and social norms on what we share publicly.
But once again instead of discussing that conversation, we're dragged back into the corporate and government surveillance, yet again.
You'd literally have to have the kind of Momma that would dig a hole and hide you in it at birth to really be "off the grid" at this point.