The Facebook of the Future Has Privacy Implications Today
On Facebook, you trade your privacy for information about your friends. But can you really understand what you give up in the transaction?
Farai Chideya
Farai Chideya is a Columnist and Consulting Editor at The Intercept. A fiction and non-fiction author, reporter and broadcaster/podcaster, she has covered every presidential election since 1996; and interviewed subjects including white supremacists, self-made billionaires and Katrina survivors. A former on-air reporter and host for ABC News, CNN and NPR, her forthcoming books include The Episodic Career: The Future of Work in America, and a completely revised edition of her 1995 book on race and the media, Don't Believe the Hype. Farai was a spring 2012 fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics, and is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
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