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The media, the world over, is flooded with stories about how internet companies are making fortunes by intruding on individual citizens’ “privacy” while governments watch helplessly.
The privacy issue reached a crisis after it was disclosed that 80-odd million US voters’ profiles from a social media network were used to influence the 2016 US presidential election, which resulted in Donald Trump’s victory. Suddenly, the personal data which internet sites hitherto used to make the internet surfing experience more personal and enjoyable is seen as threatening these very users’ rational decision-making abilities.
Is all this something new for human society to deal with,
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