This is how Facebook usurped our privacy: with the help of its market dominance. It is hard to believe that the Facebook of 2019, which is so consuming of and reckless with our data, was once the privacy-protecting Facebook of 2004. Lowering the quality of a company’s services in this manner has always been one way a monopoly can squeeze consumers after it corners a market. But we must now aggressively enforce this antitrust principle to handle the problems of our modern economy. Our government should undertake the important task of restoring to the American people something they bargained for in the first place — their privacy.

Source: New York Times May 28, 2019 10:02 UTC