“They are just collecting all the data to try to find magic growth algorithms,” Mr. Kaykas-Wolff said of online marketers. This past week, Mozilla halted its ads on Facebook, saying the social network’s default privacy settings allowed access to too much data. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe United States does not have a consumer privacy law like the General Data Protection Regulation. The business practices of Facebook and Google were reinforced by the fact that no privacy flap lasted longer than a news cycle or two. “If Facebook and Google were merely interested in maximizing profits, we could regulate them,” said Maciej Ceglowski, who runs Tech Solidarity, a labor advocacy group.

Source: New York Times March 24, 2018 17:21 UTC