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Weighing the consequences of regulating internet giants
Washington, April 11, 2018: Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, answers a question during a hearing on Capitol Hill (Source: dpa)
General info
What's inside
- Personal information is the currency of virtually all social media and a great deal of other online activity
- The users voluntarily trade their data for free use of the services, obviously finding the transaction as beneficial
- Making abuses of privacy rules more difficult is a worthwhile goal, but politicians should allow companies and their customers to address the problem
Who will benefit?
- Report is targeted to the decision makers in cross country manufacturing – suppliers, manufacturers, logistics.
- Also considered useful for the administrative university facilities, to better understand the possible effects of current decisions.
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