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Facebook controversy stokes digital privacy debate

Published Date 03/28/2018
Media Source The Hill
Department Communication
Faculty Member Michael Horning
External Link Facebook controversy stokes digital privacy debate
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Excerpt: “Mike Horning, a professor who researches social media companies, thinks that technology companies are at a make-or-break point because of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

‘If companies don’t get serious about regulation themselves or giving people more mechanisms to control what info they give away, I can see the need for federal regulation,’ Horning said.”