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The chances are companies have collected, stored, studied, and sold data about you, including your age, gender, race, employment status, geographic location, interests, hobbies, friends, family, shopping habits, political views, voting intentions, and many more.

It does not end there; privacy intrusive companies track our online and offline activities. They use the data to build sophisticated algorithms about you, to influence your thoughts, online and offline behaviour.

I do not like companies collecting data about me. I do not like companies like Google identifying my geographic location from its search engine. I do not like YouTube (google) collecting information about what videos I watch. Although I do not use Facebook, Instagram, Snap, LinkedIn, and Amazon's Alexa, these companies are reportedly collecting, storing, and using data about you, and in most cases without your understandable consent.

I dislike the thought of a data harvester selling my personal data to a data broker, and companies using the data to build algorithmic profiles about me and following me online ads with products they think I'm likely to be interested in.

I want to gauge the opinions of fellow GaG members on digital privacy.

My ex and I separated in July of 2017 due to religious differences.
Through 2018, I struggled with the breakup and eventually reached out to her because of a dream in November of 2018. The conversation did not go well, and she said I hurt her during the breakup since I didn't want to stay friends and never called or reached out after the breakup. She ended the conversation by saying she didn't want me in her life ever again.
This conversation happened on Facebook, and in January I decided to delete my Facebook. She recently reached out to me on Instagram and asked for my number to call me. She explained that she was instructed by the holy ghost to reach out to me.
She said she looked for me on Facebook and couldn't find me. But she realized she wasn't blocked because she used a friends profile too. So she searched for me on Instagram and eventually found me after a few days of searching.
Why was she so determined to find me?