We’re in the middle of a full-fledged Facebook panic. A couple of weeks ago, it was revealed that the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica used data improperly taken from Facebook by a third-party app to influence voters in the 2016 Presidential election. Compounded in part by the revelation of Cambridge Analytica’s unethical tactics and in part by CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s several days of silence on the issue, users began to get the #DeleteFacebook hashtag trending, and scrubbing their Facebook pages of data they don’t want third parties to see. Privacy concerns, with regard to technology, aren’t exactly new, but they…
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