opinion
THE BIG IDEA
Only the destruction of the vast majority of Facebook’s data stores of consumer information will prevent further abuses.
David Auerbach is a writer and software engineer. He previously worked for Google and Microsoft for ten years and has also been a technology columnist and New America Fellow. His book BITWISE: A LIFE IN CODE is forthcoming from Pantheon in 2018.
opinion
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