Surely, if offered a choice between suffering financial hardship and a temporary invasion of privacy and civil liberties, many people would opt for the latter.
While some fiercely object to any threat to our privacy, the unremitting popularity of Facebook — even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — suggests that most people are happy to give up some of their data in order to access something they deem beneficial.
Privacy yes, but not at all costs by Mark Tluszcz, Mangrove Capital Partners on Venturebeat.