Well said. In a tweet, Facebook deceived and covered up the real harms exposed by its core surveillance business model. When Congress, FTC and SEC allowed them to settle for $5B+, Apple stepped in and rightly treated Facebook’s tracking us as a real security risk. Here we are.
https://twitter.com/adamsinger/status/1495054434908393473
ps there is no empirical research I’ve seen to suggest limiting tracking is good for Google like it is for Apple. Apple’s revenue comes mostly from end consumers. Google, just like Facebook, gets most of its revenue from advertising and a majority of its data from 3rd parties.
The trick for Google is to leverage its market power, browser dominance, search dominance, operating system dominance and adtech buying/selling dominance to invent a new way to track users and then label it “privacy” in the interests of web. Much better position than Facebook.
I should also add Congress and FTC have followed up the weak consumer protection enforcement against Facebook with antitrust lawsuits and legislation so I give them credit. I’m just flagging they didn’t have the political stomach in 2018 to properly hold Facebook accountable.
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