SAN FRANCISCO: The data-collection business model fuelling Facebook and Google represents a threat to human rights around the world, Amnesty International said in a report yesterday.
“The companies’ surveillance-based business model forces people to make a Faustian bargain, whereby they are only able to enjoy their human rights online by submitting to a system predicated on human rights abuse.” “Their insidious control of our digital lives undermines the very essence of privacy and is one of the defining human rights challenges of our era.”
Facebook pushed back against what it contended were inaccuracies in the report, saying it strongly disagreed with its business model being characterised as surveillance-based.
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