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What Does It Mean For Social Media Platforms To "Sell" Our Data?

 December 15, 2018

Social media platforms generate much of their revenue through selling targeted advertising based on algorithmically mining every second of their unwilling and unwitting users’ lives, yet argue they aren't “selling” their users’ data. What does it mean for companies to “sell” our data?

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