Delete your blog, delete all archives, do not move to a different website, take this opportunity to remove yourself from social media rather than doubling down on it
If you actively use your blog, or any other social media for that matter, you are amassing a treasure trove of behavioral information that private companies are absolutely dying to get their hands on. As insurance companies develop newer and more comprehensive ways to analyze your social media activity for risk behaviors such as depression, self harm, or other “personality traits”, we are very soon going to find they will have much more and much better reasons to outright deny us housing loans, or any loans for that matter, or charge us exorbitant amounts compared to individuals with lower risk assessment scores. Nothing good will come from cataloguing our every behavior as long as the insurance industry is allowed to take advantage of it.
Say for example, you casually complain about some chronic pain specific to your abdomen every week or so on Twitter. A medical insurance risk assessment firm can use a machine learning program to analyze your tweets and diagnose you with a condition you aren’t even aware of, and send that data to insurance providers to overcharge you for coverage. Say, for example, you are a big fan of sad music like Xiu Xiu or Carissa’s Weird. A machine learning program could then deduce that you suffer from depression, and housing management companies could use this risk factor to deny you housing or charge higher rates than someone who only listens to, say, Led Zeppelin. This is exactly the reason why social media companies are able to generate so much in venture capital, the possible returns on investment for this treasure trove of data is just too great to ignore. Soon, the general public will be little more than packages of data, whollly commodified and freely traded amongst insurance and mortgage firms, entirely because we have them the data necessary to do so
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