I sat last night.....watching the 8 PM ARD (public TV, Channel One) national news. It's around day four of this BIG Facebook business, with Cambridge Analysis, and the story that private data was used to help Trump win. Yes, almost 17 months after the election....somehow, this has become BIG news.
So as the ARD journalists tried to tell the story, they eventually came to some 'conclusion' that it was illegal and broke some law. To be honest, I also watched a France-24 journalist attempt the same conclusion.
What law? What law was broken?
There is a lot of hype within Germany at this point.....chatter by the Greens and Linke Party of a major investigation. The British are talking about a major investigation. Everyone wants to determine the law broken, and says some were broken. But what law?
It's almost a comedy in slow motion. Massive anger that by social media use....they may have quietly helped Trump to beat Hillary. All this time....the fake news angle, then you had the Russian angle, and then there were fake votes angle.....so now you have to sit and watch people get frustrated over Facebook.
By the end of 2018, I expect everyone in Germany to agree....there is no law to prevent using personal data from social media, and they will work to invent one. Then the social media giants will all freak out because their only real way of profit? It's via selling of customer data.
By spring of 2019....to survive into the future via social media....the social media companies will finally start to charge people some monthly or yearly fee.
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