Reining in Big Tech

ST ILLUSTRATION: CEL GULAPA
The use of Facebook's live video-streaming feature by a terrorist to broadcast live footage of his attack on mosques in Christchurch appears to have prompted the latest changes to the platform. PHOTO: REUTERS
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Concerns over the privacy of his personal life prompted Mr Low to quit Facebook in 2016.

For the same reason, he backs up his data using a storage device, rather than rely on cloud services such as Google Drive.

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