When a technology company behaves badly, you hear one defense brought up repeatedly: they could have done so much worse. When Google decided that they would use your face in their advertisements, you shouldn’t have been outraged, you should have been relieved they didn’t tell everyone your darkest secrets. The message is, given what they know about you, you should be grateful that they treat you as well as they do. This line of thinking gets brought up frequently around the discussion of Facebook’s now infamous 2012 “emotional contagion” study. …
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