Facebook’s Data-Oligarchy and Illusion of Control

At this point, nothing about Facebook's vast data collection engine should surprise anyone. Yet for all the effort it expends defending its questionable data practices, the social network's hunger for users' personal information has led to it adopting any means necessary for harvesting as much data as possible, acquiring any company that might remotely threaten its numero uno status, crushing its competition and expanding its reach on a colossal scale, with seemingly nothing to stop it on its tracks.

Until now. And 2018 might as well be Facebook's year of reckoning, its annus horribilis... Read More

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