Facebook's surveillance is nothing compared with Comcast, AT&T and Verizon [telecom]

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Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook

- but their surveillance is much harder to avoid

By Salome Viljoen [1]

If you think Facebook's "Cambridge Analytica problem" is bad, just wait until Comcast and Verizon are able to do the same thing.

In response to the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Facebook took out full-page apology ads in several prominent British and US newspapers. While the company acknowledged a "breach of trust", it also pointed out that third-party developers like Cambridge Analytica [2] no longer get access to as much information about users under Facebook's current terms of service.