The internet is as deep as it is wide. And we are just singular entities drifting across the surface, perhaps clinging to a piece of driftwood. Underpinning us, keeping us afloat is the raw data we generate and consume so readily. If we are generating the ocean, the driftwood is surely our user profile. Buoyancy aside, the data questions are real. I think that in 2016 a majority of internet users understand the adage “if you’re not paying for it, you are the product,” and how this very utterance keeps our favorite social media sites free at the point of...
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