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Facebook is free, so we're paying for it
Doing things with personal data is a core business model that society has chosen to support for years
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Getting rid of Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations is mostly meaningless - just because the social network may no longer be able to give your data to a suspicious developer, it does not mean some other tech company cannot do it too, says the writer.
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Let me make you an offer upfront: If you make it to the end of this column, I will reveal to you my sure-fire four-step method of ensuring total online data privacy.
Before we get to that part though, you have to put up with me lamenting about how we got to a situation where my four-step method is one of very, very few ways you can become a private person again.
