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UN Privacy Chief Avoids Social Media, Citing Privacy Concerns

First-ever U.N. Special Rapporteur on Privacy Joseph Cannataci doesn’t use Facebook or Twitter because he believes in privacy, he said in an interview with The Guardian Monday. “We have a number of corporations that have set up a business model…

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that is bringing in hundreds of thousands of millions of euros and dollars every year and they didn’t ask anybody’s permission,” he said. “Unfortunately, the vast bulk of people sign their rights away without knowing or thinking too much about it.” Technology is presented as ever-developing, not as being controlling, but as confirmed in documents released by former NSA-contractor Edward Snowden, technology has ever-developing sinister capabilities that have “gone out of control,” Cannataci said.