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Data Protection Laws are Shining a Needed Light on a Secretive Industry

| June 01, 2018

When Marc Zuckerberg testified before both the House and the Senate last month, it became immediately obvious that few US lawmakers had any appetite to regulate the pervasive surveillance taking place on the internet.

Right now, the only way we can force these companies to take our privacy more seriously is through the market. But the market is broken....

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For Academic Citation: Schneier, Bruce.“Data Protection Laws are Shining a Needed Light on a Secretive Industry.” The Guardian, June 1, 2018.

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