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Fragmented US privacy rules leave large data loopholes for Facebook and others

  • Written by Florian Schaub, Assistant Professor of Information; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
What are the rules governing who's watching you online?Aleutie

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimonywill discuss ways to keep people’s online data private, which I’m interested in as a privacy scholar. Facebook and other U.S. companies already follow more comprehensive privacy laws in other countries. But without...

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