Users will be asked to surrender identifying personal information, accumulating in a database of our personal sexual tastes.
But to flourish over the long term, they need to seek new ways to market the personal data they accumulate.
When Facebook files for a public stock offering, as it is expected to do on Wednesday, it will be moving to cash in on the vast pile of personal data it has accumulated, Somini Sengupta and Evelyn M. Rusli report in Wednesday's Times.
Writer tells about data accumulated in the files of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on these nine reactors.
Subsequent data accumulate cohorts similarly.
And, it has been widely reported that Google and Microsoft accumulate personal data on Internet users as well.
Instead we're talking about the collection and use of personal data at scale; governments and corporations accumulating massive amounts of highly personal information from billions of people.
Sen. Mark Warner, vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned in a statement of the "dangers" posed by companies that are "able to accumulate so much personal data about individual Americans without adequate security measures".
"Today's disclosure is a reminder about the dangers posed when a small number of companies like Facebook or the credit bureau Equifax are able to accumulate so much personal data about individual Americans without adequate security measures.
But his real crime was confirming that the intelligence agencies, despite their strenuous public denials, have been accumulating vast amounts of personal data from the American public.
