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How you helped create the crisis in private data

  • Written by Sarah Igo, Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of Political Science; Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
What role did you play?Composite of Christos Georghiou and sdecoret/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

As Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg testifiesbefore Congress, he’s likely wondering how his company got to the point where he must submit to public questioning. It’s worth pondering how we, the Facebook-using public, got here too.

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