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The Information App That is Trying out a Promising Solution to Construct In Privateness From the Flooring Up

Nowadays privateness on-line seems like an unimaginable dream. The whole thing you do turns into knowledge for corporations, which promote that knowledge to associates, which then promote your knowledge again to you within the type of focused commercials and customized suggestions. This is simply how issues are. However what if it didn’t should be?
These days privacy online feels like an unattainable dream. Everything you do becomes data for companies, which sell that data to affiliates, which then sell your data back to you in the form of targeted ads and personalized recommendations. That is just how things are. But what if it didn’t have to be?

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Author: Victoria Song

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