[jnaour]

Made me thinks of the last season of House of Cards. Really a good one, really neat and engaged in some aspect like Reign by Terror, Manufacturing consent using search engine, relation with Russia...

One of other HN article is about Facebook data used for social studies. If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

[baldfat]

> If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

I hear this all the time but it's message is a bit off. I'll quote this page http://powazek.com/posts/3229

1) Assumption: This is new or unique to the internet

2) Assumption: You’re either the product or the customer

3) My Favorite - Assumption: Companies you pay treat you better (Comcast Anyone?)

[toyg]

4) Assumption: companies have one and one only type of customer / product.

[ascagnel_]

You can't even assume that a company competing for your dollars will treat your better (Verizon's tracking header junk on mobile, even with that market being far more competitive than landline).