OPINION
Why millennials will learn nothing from Facebook’s privacy crisis
By Matthew Hennessey
April 7, 2018 | 10:43am | Updated
Millennials don't seem to care that Facebook harvests their data for profit, but Zuckerberg should be worried.
NY Post photo composite/Mike Guillen
Last year it seemed Mark Zuckerberg was looking for a way into politics. Now he could be looking for a way out.
The Facebook founder has been called to testify before Congress starting Tuesday. He’ll face tough questions about how a Trump-affiliated data-analytics firm got hold of personal information belonging to nearly 90 million of the social-media site’s users. On Wednesday he told reporters he’d made a “huge mistake” in not prioritizing the protection of user data.
That’s a bit like a casino apologizing for letting you lose so much money at the craps table. Facebook exists to sell access to user data.
“No company better exemplifies the Internet age dictum that if the product is free, you are the product,” wrote the British journalist John Lanchester last year. Zuckerberg realized early on that advertisers, marketers, political opposition researchers, academics and data nerds of all stripes would kill to get their hands on your likes and dislikes. If he was going to make any money off his dorm-room doodle he was going to have to sell you out.
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2018/04/07/why-millennials-will-learn-nothing-from-facebooks-privacy-crisis/
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“No company better exemplifies the Internet age dictum that if the product is free, you are the product,” wrote the British journalist John Lanchester last year. Zuckerberg realized early on that advertisers, marketers, political opposition researchers, academics and data nerds of all stripes would kill to get their hands on your likes and dislikes. If he was going to make any money off his dorm-room doodle he was going to have to sell you out.
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