Richard Blumenthal: “For Facebook, consumers are the product, so to speak. Their…”

On the recordJune 18, 2018

For Facebook, consumers are the product, so to speak. Their information is monetized.

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Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal emphasizes that consumer data is monetized by Facebook, making consumers the product.

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