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Facebook isn't the only one with too much of your data. Just ask Google and Amazon.

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So Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has you freaked. 

The social media giant's appetite for your personal data combined with its ability to exploit it for profit regardless of societal cost has soured many on the company. But as we collectively reckon with the havoc Facebook has wrought, it's important to take stock of the other 800-pound gorillas in the digital room: Google and Amazon.  

The two companies, to varying degrees, both collect massive amounts of data on the people who use their services, and yet they've largely avoided the public scrutiny falling on Facebook in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It's time that changes.  Read more...

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from Mashable https://mashable.com/2018/04/14/google-amazon-facebook-cambridge-analytica/
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