Part of the insidiousness of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook story is that some people still firmly believe the revelations have nothing to do with them. This misguided line of thinking runs in two parallel directions, one scolding and one smug. Data gatheringWhat the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook story has, at long last, started to reveal is the sweeping extent of data gathering by Facebook, and others. This overwhelmingly vast, often interlinked network of local, national and international data gatherers and processors affects us all. And overall, we need – and long have deserved – far greater international oversight and scrutiny of all organisations gathering data.

Source: The Irish Times March 29, 2018 05:15 UTC