Excerpt: Discussions about how Facebook operates have been high on the agenda over the past week as the US Congress investigates the platform’s impact. At the core of these discussions are questions of how Facebook uses data that we, as users, generate.
Year Published: 2021
Date Published: 11/10/2021
Author/s: Yates & Carmi
Research Link: https://theconversation.com/dont-know-how-your-data-is-used-or-how-to-protect-it-youre-not-alone-but-you-can-improve-your-data-literacy-169431
Methodology: Survey of 1500 people in the UK; 14 focus groups.
Key Takeaways:
More people have low or no skills than we usually estimate; even people with high skills feel disempowered about how their data is used; people feel that the responsibility is on them and their skills rather than on tech companies.