(12/N) A fifth category of adversaries:
Business(i)es
#Business(i)es want to extract #profit from you. Preferably, but not necessarily in legal, sustainable, and the cheapest possible ways.
Your assets are seen as levers to generate more profit, because they betray what is meaningful to you, and worth investing into, in your eyes.
Businessies disguise their factual indifference towards your specific assets by enthusiastically pretending to "care" as much for them as you do, to achieve the "Nessie effect": on the surface, always appear likeable, despite your size, and in spite of what you are actually pursuing under the surface.
This category is the widest of all. Nearly all businessies participate in #SurveillanceCapitalism, either by directly aggregating every tidbit of your data in a #profile, in return for a service that is allegedly "free" – and later selling targeted access to you; or by paying #DataBrokers for access to potential customers that fit very specific criteria.
(to be continued)
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