Patrick Cosgrove (Letters, 21 March) argues that the answer to the Facebook data scandal is simple – stop using Facebook. A few of us have never been a member of Facebook, but they still hold data about us, gathered from our friends and family who do have Facebook accounts. The web standards and structure have been created and moulded by corporations to suit their own purposes. A primary difficulty is conceiving how one might engage ordinary citizens in authoring web standards; this is very dry, technical work. But even a luddite like me finds it odd that anyone using Facebook thought their data was not being harvested.

Source: The Guardian March 22, 2018 18:11 UTC