Without any privacy protections for individuals in the United States, companies such as Cambridge Analytica are able to exploit trillions of bits of personal information about individual voters.
And while Facebook has offered a plethora of apologies and suspended the company from its platform, there's not much you can do about it after the fact.
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Yet, Facebook users ultimately have little recourse against Facebook itself.
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Again, federal and state privacy laws offer very little protection."
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Joel Winston (@joelwinston) is a Pittsburgh-based attorney who specializes in privacy and cybersecurity law. He formerly served as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of New Jersey and currently provides global legal and regulatory counsel to technology companies. [cf. technology users]
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