Amnesty International issued a scathing indictment of the world’s dominant Internet corporations, arguing in a new report that Google and Facebook should be forced to abandon what it calls their surveillance-based business model because it is "predicated on human rights abuse”.
The London-based global rights group said in the 60-page report published Nov 21 that the business model of what it calls the "Surveillance Giants” is "inherently incompatible with the right to privacy”. Google and Facebook likewise threaten a range of other rights, including freedom expression and the right to equality and non-discrimination, the group said.