>Pandemic Villains: Robinhood Matt Taibbi
I never heard of Robinhood nor do I use Facebook (though I do use WhatsApp to stay in touch with family) but “selling intelligence about customers’ behaviors to experts” seems to be an extension of what Snowden revealed the gov’t was doing. In this instance, as in Facebook, people will voluntarily flock to a product that is free and think little of their privacy. An individual giving up her privacy when she has nothing to hide may seem innocuous enough, when a whole society thinks the same I can only imagine what the dystopic outcome will be given how power tends to corrupt in proportion to its increase.