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by KaiserPro 1854 days ago
So is google's, and all the ad tech companies, a bunch of medical tech companies, most of TV. But we don't give them as much introspection.

but, apart from cambridge analytica, where actual data was leaked, what privacy abuses are unique to facebook?

Its not like they drove around harvesting your wifi to geolocate you, or deliberately hid breaches to protect it's "good name", or sells your location data to any and everyone who asks is it?

All big companies have done shitty things, but why do we let them off? shouldn't we hold them to account as well?