The question of whether we’ll be uploading our consciousness to a computer is no longer if. It’s probably when. That’s because these digital consciousnesses – our essences – will likely be the product of an AI’s interpretation of ourselves. The breadcrumbs we’ll leave across digital files, images, videos, audio recordings, and, of course, all that social media will be an ample resource to reconstruct you.
It’s pretty rare to actually delete data from a database. It’s almost always flagged in a way that the system is supposed to ignore.
But even if you’ve never had a Facebook account, they create a shadow profile by tracking you through the share on Facebook buttons on websites.