If you thought the Facebook data harvesting scandal was bad, you probably don’t live in Russia.

For many Russians reading about the story, it was a case of “welcome to our world.”

Data harvesting is a booming and highly competitive business here, with a host of companies offering ways of “scraping” up details on your likes, shares and comments for commercial gain, with barely any regulatory or legislative control.

There are now companies offering advertisers—and anyone else who can pay—the ability to target almost any group imaginable.