Satire Essay On Privacy

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Tech companies like Google, Twitter or Facebook have appeared over the last decade all over our lives. The last scandal of Facebook is its leak of millions of users’ information that was sold for political purposes.
While we would say that the best is to regulate more these companies, we could be causing bankruptcy to all Silicon Valley. It’s no secret that one part of the benefit of these multinationals is the information that they can get while we’re using one of their websites. If they can’t use our information, they would lose a big part of their benefits.
However, we all want privacy over what we do in our privacy. The laws of every developed country give us the right to that privacy, so these companies shouldn’t use our private information

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