Find Out What Google and Facebook Know About You – Trust Issues – Medium

Find Out What Google and Facebook Know About You – Trust Issues – Medium

It was relatively easy to figure out some of what Facebook thinks it knows about me, thanks to a Chrome browser extension called What Facebook Thinks You Like. Whereas Google listed 28 things I appear to like, Facebook listed 713: “New York metropolitan area,” “Step Up (film),” “observational comedy,” “law school,” “motorsport,” “Michelle Obama,” “global warming,” and, oddly, “missing person.”
Facebook’s accuracy was spotty. I do love New York, the Step Up films (teen dance movies are my jam), and Michelle Obama (because I’m a patriot). I do not like “motorsports” or “law school.” No one likes law school. I also don’t like “global warming.” Nor “missing person.”…