Good op-ed by the founder of ProtonMail. Between 2015 and 2016, revenue jumped 22 percent. (Google and Facebook alone were responsible for 99 percent of that g

Good op-ed by the founder of ProtonMail. Between 2015 and 2016, revenue jumped 22 percent. (Google and Facebook alone were responsible for 99 percent of that growth.) Big data companies already control an unimaginable amount of information about all of us. One database marketing firm, Acxiom, stores an average of 1,500 data points on 96 percent of the U.S. population. This article is reminiscent of the great piece by Bruce Schneier on “surveillance capitalism.” https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2017/07/surveillance_is_the_.html https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2017/07/surveillance_... (actually, that’s an interview follow up with Schneier - this is the article https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/facebook_and_ca.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/facebook_and_... )