**a complicated landscape of hugely valuable data and privacy!**

## https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

[Can decentralized social networks be a new trend in the aftermath of the Facebook, Cambridge Analytica scandal?](https://hackernoon.com/6-social-media-powered-by-blockchain-fdc41d16cb12)

compare with old times
[How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-the-simulmatics-corporation-invented-the-future) 2020

> To conventional polls and political analysis, Simulmatics added computer simulations, not unlike, say, the simulations used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to predict the number of new covid-19 cases given various scenarios. A simulation program works by way of endless if/then statements: if this, then that. if/then was the syntax of Simulmatics’ reports

## https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-imposes-5-billion-penalty-sweeping-new-privacy-restrictions

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/12/facebook-fine-ftc-privacy-violations