Note: This story has been cross-posted to my LinkedIn page.
In the wake of the outrage against Facebook with regards to the data accessibility of mass users on their platform by actors such as Cambridge Analytica, the company has been insisting that it had not broken any laws. And it was right. Users signing up to Facebook for the first time (as early as a decade ago), gave consent to the use and sharing of their data, oblivious at the time to the extent to which data collection techniques would evolve in the coming years, and how lucrative the digital advertisement industry would become.
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