Z:gnu-www-ja-keep-control-of-your-computing--f6f16e-The timesharing companies of t/en

The timesharing companies of the 1980s had usually treated their users' data with respect, even though they could occasionally abuse them, because their users were paying clients and could go elsewhere. Facebook's users do not pay, so they are not its clients. They are its merchandise, to be sold to other businesses. If the company is in the US, or is a subsidiary of a US company, the FBI can collect this data at whim without even a court order under an un-American US law, named in purest blackwhiting the &ldquo;Patriot Act&rdquo;.