| Thursday May 24th 2012

Facebook’s “anti-privacy monopoly”


Facebook growth chart

In an essay and handy infographic, DeObfuscate lays out the inverse relationship between Facebook’s growing market share and the erosion of user privacy.

Words of wisdom tweeted by Tim Spalding over the weekend:

Why do free social networks tilt inevitably toward user exploitation? Because you’re not their customer, you’re their product.


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