To understand today's global data economy, look to the Middle Ages - The Washington Post - 1 views
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With Facebook’s announcement Friday that it has suspended more developer apps for misusing users’ data than previously identified, the company revealed how little we know about the life of our data, even when we already know it’s been breached.
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The global data economy mines human information to predict and influence behavior in ways most of us are incapable of comprehending.
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to better understand what this means for the future of privacy, we need to look back to a much older idea, one from the Middle Ages.
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