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How the shady world of the data industry strips away our freedoms

  • Written by Uri Gal, Associate Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
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The recent questioning of the heads of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple in the US Congress has highlighted the threat their practices pose to our privacy and democracy.

However these big four companies are only part of a vast, sophisticated system of mass surveillance.

In this network are thousands of data brokers, ad agencies and...

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