What I wanted to articulate though was that Facebook isn't delivering an essential service. The consumer still has a choice not to use it. So if it as a company is known to abuse the information you give it then don't do business with that company.
Email, phone, and even your personal address you don't have a lot choice around not using. And that stuff also isn't really protected without encryption. (excluding mail by postal service, mostly).
Basically if you don't want communication to be intercepted and potentially used against you then do it in person inside of faraday cage. I'm mostly joking here.
I have never had a Facebook account. I believe Meta would have a shadow-account for me, based on browser fingerprint, photos tagged by their users and such.
What I wanted to articulate though was that Facebook isn't delivering an essential service. The consumer still has a choice not to use it. So if it as a company is known to abuse the information you give it then don't do business with that company.
Email, phone, and even your personal address you don't have a lot choice around not using. And that stuff also isn't really protected without encryption. (excluding mail by postal service, mostly).
Basically if you don't want communication to be intercepted and potentially used against you then do it in person inside of faraday cage. I'm mostly joking here.