Academic paper argues that Facebook's potential abuses of monopoly power and violations of users' privacy are not separate but are two sides of the same coin
Once it became indispensable, it gained the power to reverse promises it had made not to gather certain data. Tweets: @waltmossberg Tweets: Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg : And, yes, of course, I read the whole article, which describes a creeping growth of privacy-robbing features as Facebook grew. My point is that way back, very near the start, when the service was a fraction of its current size, privacy was already expendable. Size wasn't the key.