How Big Data Spawned Thousands of Cambridge Analyticas

Opinion: A look at the big picture reveals a more unsettling reality

It’s innate in human nature to expect a basic degree of protection—from bodily harm, from emotional injury, from assaults on our livelihoods. In free societies, citizens also expect to be protected from wrongful intrusions into their private lives, whether by governmental bodies, multinational corporations or social networks.

At the heart of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica firestorm is an aggrieved sense that this fundamental right was violated—by an unscrupulous consulting firm, by a social network that failed to prevent the theft of millions of users’ data and by government regulators who failed to prevent such abuses.

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