A legal process intended to compensate consumers and promote privacy is instead breeding alarmism and lining lawyers’ pockets — while letting the tech companies that created the privacy problems brush off the mistakes as a cost of doing business. This point was reinforced yet again when the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation revealed that it will turn down its share of a $20 million settlement intended to compensate Facebook users whose photos were misused for advertising.
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