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Data Collection Is How the Web Functions

Data collection is how the web as we know it functions. It runs all our platforms and aps, and it's how te companies make money. All that data collection has also set up society for a whole host of issues. The gig economy uses big data to decide wages and schedules. And then there's mass surveillance, not just on line, increasingly with censers in the off lying world,. Theyre being linked to facial recognition systems.

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