At #disruptedtimes22, @DinaSrinivasan says her landmark FB research was inspired in part by FB's ramp up of surveillance after Google shut down G+ and FB no longer had to fear competition
At the same time, @Snowden's #prism leaks made it clear that this data was harvested by governments and used in lethal applications ('We use metadata to kill people' -Michael Hayden)
She structured her research so that it could be turned into a class action suit by monied interests
FB entered the market with a promise not to track users with cookies. FB repeatedly tried to switch its users' preferences to allow mass tracking and they resisted until Google stopped competing with them
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