Facebook In The Age Of The Big Tech Whistleblower

Problems/Failures Effecting Computer Technology Student’s Name: Institutional Affiliation: Facebook in the Age of the Big Tech Whistleblower Article Summary This article explains how Facebook is facing a big challenge of ensuring the privacy of its users in the wake of increased tension and mistrusts. According to this article, this issues has been raised again after a year following Cambridge Analytica’s had been named in a mesmerizing report provided by the Guardian detailing the company’s voter-targeting operation (Hempel, 2018). This kind of information brings about the question the type of information that users of the most popular social media hand over to them. People are now worried about the information they share to third-party apps such Facebook, especially how this free spun data surge might bite us later in future. However, according to this article, Wylie’s claim that Cambridge Analytica idea of pulling big data as well as social media is a way of fueling some information warfare is vague. The article terms Wylie, the initial perpetrator of this information as a whistleblower who ultimately cultivated some fear onto Facebook users. According to the author, Wiley triggered something missed by many news stories before. According to Hempel (2018), Wylie provided “a latent rage that may lay the groundwork for a movement that demands accountability from Facebook.” However, although the unmonitored power of firms harvesting our data is a big problem, the issue is the tenuous nature of the claim or idea. Commentary The issue of harvesting people’s data could be a big problem to us but ...