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What is the final outcome of all this then? I've not followed it (I don't have facebook so it won't affect me one bit) I get that they have been selling data and they track people to a ridiculous level but what is going to change after all this shizzle?

will they just stop selling the data and tracking people to the extent they are or could it mean the end of facebook?

All the stuff I have watched on Youtube looks poorly done, everyone questioning him only gets 4 minutes, it usually takes 3 minutes 30 seconds to get him rattled and then they just pass over to the next person which give him time to regain his composure and avoid the pressing questions.
Well said. This is not only Facebook doing this but all social media sites. Certainly something will have to happen since it has drawn so much public attention but I don't see anything major. Look at all the pharmaceutical companies that have been interviewed by congress with loud promises to change pricing and being scolded for 300 percent price gauges led by Elizabeth Warren mind you and absolutely nothing happens. Facebook will be fined and make some changes but in the overall scheme of things I don't see much happening
I don't really understand the outrage though, I'm on Twatter but I have never made a tweet and I have no followers (I don't even know how to make a tweet) but I get text notifications to my phone about boxing and the Villa, I'm fully aware that anyone can see what I'm doing but they will look at me and think I'm a sad act with no friends and no life.

how is all of this data that is being sold being used in such a way that it has been made such a big thing?