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The problem is that their indifference to how their data is used is starting to affect all of us. As evidenced by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it’s not just advertisers tailoring ads to you. You now have shady organizations trying alter elections and pushing propaganda into users.

If this leads to voters developing bizarre views of the world that influence who they vote for, then their carelessness becomes our problem.



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