Top lawyers at Facebook, Google and LinkedIn proclaimed very publicly last week that Internet users don’t need the government to protect their privacy online.
The argument coming from these companies — whose only way to make money is, incidentally, to use your personal information to sell advertising — is simple: Trust us. They were making their case at hearings held at UC-Berkeley School of Law by the Federal Trade Commission, which is considering the need for new rules for protecting privacy on the Web.
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