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Why the business model of social media giants like Facebook is incompatible with human rights

  • Written by Sarah Joseph, Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
Facebook’s actions – or inactions – facilitated breaches of privacy and human rights associated with democratic governance.EPA/Peter DaSilva

Facebook has had a bad few weeks. The social media giant had to apologise for failing to protect the personal data of millions of users from being accessed by data mining company Cambridge...

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