The Politics of Data Privacy in a Post-Cambridge Analytica World - Knowledge@Wharton

In the weeks following the eruption of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, the world’s biggest social network has been experiencing what is arguably its biggest PR crisis ever. But the lasting legacy of the scandal is not headlines linking Cambridge Analytica with the Trump campaign or Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election; rather, it is the politicization of privacy that will surely intensify as the public becomes more aware of how firms monetize their personal data, writes Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett in this opinion piece. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-politics-of-data-privacy-in-a-post-cambridge-analytica-world/