#New investigation: Tracking tech is collecting user data on sites that K-12 students are all but required to use if they want to participate in school or apply to college.
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/11/22/facebook-watches-teens-online-as-they-prep-for-college
@themarkup this is great reporting. Thank you
@themarkup What is the energy cost to collect & store all this data, most of which will never be accessed by humans again?
@Nazani Goood question. Mozilla has done some reporting on the internet's carbon footprint (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/ai-internet-carbon-footprint/), but we don't know the exact answer to this question!
@themarkup We drive by the ginormous server farms...