The Facebook Inc. application icon is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone in an arranged photograph taken in New York, U.S., on Thursday, July 26, 2018. Facebook shares plunged 19 percent Thursday after second-quarter sales and user growth missed Wall Street estimates. Photographer: Johannes Berg/Bloomberg
Three recent developments illustrate why so many Americans feel that their privacy is increasingly threatened by institutions using technology. Each raises troubling issues.
Stories about these institutions trying to reassure users that they care about their privacy are so common as to be banal. It's beyond time to ask if they should be believed.
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