What’s so
uncanny about Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook scandal is not simply how all-pervasive is
the extent to which his firm
developed a wide array of
drill-down tools to data-mine virtually all of over two billion users’ personally identifiable
information, but that Zuckerberg has also permitted third-party businesses to
construct apps to access that information and to employ it for their own
commercial purposes without user consent.
The tsunami
behind this scandal has been building up in the depths of the Silicon Valley
information ocean for years, but it finally hit the shores of the Washington
D.C. Beltway with the revelation that Russian interests had wormed their way
into Zuckerberg’s empire of data and used that source to meddle in the 2016 American
elections.
