“The scariest part is there is no one villain.
You can scrutinize #SiliconValley and #Facebook all you want, but Facebook exists in a #stockmarket enabled society. . . . then there is this drive for growth-at-all-costs mentality, so you take the #growthatallcosts [mentality] in a #freemarket environment and you apply that with this ethos of #growfast and break things and this is where we end up — we are a broken #democraticstructure.”

https://www.salon.com/2019/07/24/the-great-hack-tells-the-chilling-saga-of-how-big-data-ensnared-us-all/

"The Great Hack" tells the chilling saga of how Big Data ensnared us all

America and the UK had their post-election privacy awakening. Have our attitudes toward Big Data really changed?