Not exact matches
The tweet comes in the midst
of massive investigations into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica about potentially
misused data scraped from millions
of Facebook users, and how that information may have been used to influence the 2016 US presidential election.
«If your business is building a
massive surveillance machinery, the
data will eventually be used &
misused,» Tufekci, a University
of North Carolina professor who studies the social impact
of technology, wrote on Twitter.
We can condemn the
misuse of this
data, and Facebook's
data collection practices, without calling it a
data breach, a term that may confuse readers and distract them from what we believe is the real problem here: Silicon Valley giants have built
massive data collection machines with almost no guardrails on how they are used.