Even when each piece of data is gathered separately, big tech can combine numerous types of data into an individual 'super profile' with detailed information on each person. — AFP
The big four American tech companies known as GAFA – Google, Apple Inc, Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc – are dot-com platforms that have led the shift toward the Internet era and provided various services to individuals. At the same time, they’ve become so large that many countries are now monitoring them more closely.
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