Facebook Facial Recognition in Illinois. Big Tech and Big Data

What if I told you I had an idea What if that idea was to build a platform that let millions of people around the world make their own little website for free A natural question would be how on earth I would expect to pay for it much less make any money from it. It turns out the answer to that question is simple. You let all those millions generate content for you so that people will go to your platform. Then you contract with other, bigger companies to throw a bunch of ads up on everyones sites. Even better, you get a little kickback every time someone buys something from those ads. Sounds like genius right What if I told you it gets even better What if this platform were to collect all kinds of data about everyone using it so that you could make sure they see the ads that are most likely to get their attention Oh, but that isnt even everything. It turns out this platform could even get all that data and sell it to a variety of third parties. And yes, it would all be completely legal because t