Are Data Privacy Laws Failing Us?

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Big data rules and we’re all, sooner or later, going to be caught in the system. At least that’s the takeaway from Netflix documentary The Great Hack about the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It’s a message we’re perhaps all aware of, but one that is hard to (truly) comprehend.

Mere numbers for corporations, powerful targets for advertisers, you in a nutshell — that’s personal data. And there’s big money in…