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Online privacy breaches

About 2 billion Facebook users have been surveyed and profiled.

Techno-philiacs Melanie Moeller
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Algorithms shape not only our purchasing decisions and taste profiles, but also our voting behaviour. Your own personal data might even have been misused in the Cambridge Analytica leak. The recent scandal suggests that, with the power of multinationals and their large-scale data harvesting technologies, we find ourselves in an accountability crisis.