The pressure on social media to regulate has never been greater than it is now. Facebook Steps InThe New York Times first broke the story that has been driving worldwide headlines ever since. The integration of Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram was the bad news, the wider deployment of encryption the quid pro quo. How exactly the company planned to trade off the mutually exclusive goals of data privacy and data exploitation was left to the detail. The U.K.’s Children’s Commissioner wrote the same week to the major social media organizations.

Source: Forbes February 03, 2019 10:52 UTC