I used to visit this forum years ago and I recently felt impressed that I should come back and share some info. I am a software engineer by trade. I write code. I've worked for many big tech companies over the years. Last year I worked for a well known big tech company on a year long contract. I worked on the software that searches all social media platforms and collects the data on you. Facebook, Twitter, et all, have back doors called APIs that allow authorized entities to request data. And that data is then packed up and sent...