How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and Google - The New York Times - 0 views
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People detailed their interests and obsessions on Facebook and Google, generating a river of data that could be collected and harnessed for advertising. The companies became very rich. Users seemed happy. Privacy was deemed obsolete, like bloodletting and milkmen
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It has been many months of allegations and arguments that the internet in general and social media in particular are pulling society down instead of lifting it up.
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That has inspired a good deal of debate about more restrictive futures for Facebook and Google. At the furthest extreme, some dream of the companies becoming public utilities.
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