”Facebook, Google surveillance assault on privacy”
Facebook and Google which offer services to billions of people without asking them to pay a financial fee are performing an assault on the right to privacy on an unprecedented scale, a stinging Amnesty International report said on Thursday, stressing that both companies need to change their business models which are threatening basic human rights.
The abuse of privacy that is core to Facebook and Google’s surveillance-based business model is starkly demonstrated by the companies” long history of privacy scandals.
“Despite the companies” assurances over their commitment to privacy, it is difficult not to see these numerous privacy infringements as part of the normal functioning of their business, rather than aberrations,” said the report that came out on Thursday.
