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How corporations got all your data

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Ad-Tech Industry and the Threat to Our Democracy

Jeffrey Hammerbacher, an engineer at Facebook, said that the best minds of his generation are thinking about how to make people click on ads./nThis is depressing because it shows how the misuse of human intelligence is being used for the most insidious ends, such as making money and capturing people's attention./nThe conversation also points out that there are many highly educated people who are not using their skills for the public good, and this has macro effects.

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