I dont think "our dear" Zuck, could foresee how power hungry parties would use his platform to keep and grow their powers, when it was still a small community.

Steem is still a small fish in the surveillance ocean with a 800k accounts, and much less active human accounts.

The other point is that while some Steemians use this as another Facebook and post everything about themselves, many more remain hidden from view and don’t reveal personal information while commenting and posting. Therefore profile mining does not easily produce specific results.

You are not forced to reveal you identity on Steem, but just like with Facebook apps, Steem apps collect more than just the blockchain.

Looking at a random Busy.org post the scripts attached to each post reveal many big brothers are still following and data mining you.

SteemConnect now need more permissions from users and posting key is no longer enough. Each click on Steemit is mined by Google.

I worry that with the Steem token the development of a bigger surveillance platform is now outsourced on its users. The dollar sign on each post makes people blind.

I really hope im wrong.