- Nov 5, 2011
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It’s a bad time to be an internet user. Despite the many technological advancements that have made it possible for more people to get online and connect with each other, along with all of the many online services that can be enjoyed by almost anyone by doing nothing more than simply tapping a few buttons, actual internet use can be quite unpleasant. The reason for this? Some of the biggest websites on the planet are involved, in one way or another, in the biggest privacy scandal of all time.
Yes, the internet is huge and practically limitless, and there are many things you can do to avoid being affected by this privacy scandal. But it has come to a point where being careful to not be personally affected is no longer enough. As the details of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica saga has revealed, your personal information could have been compromised no matter how careful you are. Facebook itself already tracks people even if they don’t have actual Facebook accounts. And if you keep that in mind, the idea of people losing their privacy through the platform – even if they didn’t do anything to deserve it – doesn’t seem so surprising after all.
As a result of all this commotion, the general public has become wary of Facebook and its ilk. And at least one expert warns that it will take a major effort to turn things back around, if that’s even possible at all at this point.
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Read more about the latest privacy scandals in PrivacyWatch.news.
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