Status Updates From Why Privacy Matters

"If this really works, democracy in practice will just boil down to an arms race between which campaign hires the best data scientists." Today's section focused on the emergence of data use in politics and how much of an effect it has on democracy.

"But that's not the really interesting part of the story. The real reason Facebook wasn't listening in to our conversations was that it didn't need to." Richards makes the point that, while people focus on the threat of apps and websites "listening in" to our conversations, they often ignore where the majority of data comes from: how we interact with and feed these services.

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