Greetings! On a public website it is always the case that your information can be data mined. To my knowledge all public data on other social networks is thoroughly mined by numerous professional companies and sold on. I have stated since I launched my own social network many years ago that if you don't want something to be known by everyone then don't post it on the internet, period.

If someone wants to judge others and put them in their own limiting boxes, then they will do that based on their own thinking and no amount of controlling them is going to be the right solution. Balance needs to come from the heart and so we need to co-create society that doesn't allow others to have control over us and a result of that process will be that many other challenges will be resolved. There is not really a shortcut to living real balance, all issues must be addressed at source. So the only soulution is to first heal self and understand the issues involved deeply enough to then be able to help others.

For me, Steem and its transparency represents a playground and laboratory for showing and learning how to have real balance in society (though it is not a perfect one). The greater our own alignment to truth and correct logic about life and ourselves, in general, that greater our ability will be to effect the called for changes - so I do that without much concern for being data mined. I see this and similar systems as a tool for effecting the kind of change that is needed to remove threats from data mining in the long term and in the short term it is tough to avoid those threats without removing self from public discussions.