Cory Doctorow

journalist and special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Facebook is embroiled in yet another data privacy scandal.

Half a billion Facebook users were hacked. Should we care about yet another data breach?

Facebook is embroiled in yet another data privacy scandal.

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