All of which makes the last couple of weeks a fascinating study of transatlantic irony. In the early days of Facebook, Zuckerberg noted that his 4,000 Harvard colleagues, each of whom had given him their private information, “trust me”. Zuckerberg is apparently outraged by the revelations that Cambridge Analytica, as a third-party software developer accredited by Facebook, accessed and retained privacy data. Many Americans however now feel that a data privacy threshold has been crossed by exploitation of the internet for electoral advantage. In my own case Facebook has accumulated not just two but 11 years’ worth of my own private data.

Source: The Irish Times March 29, 2018 04:52 UTC