Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Use Design to Trick You Into Handing Over Your Data, New Report Warns

Last updated on September 8th, 2018

A study from the Norwegian Consumer Council dug into the underhanded tactics used by Microsoft, Facebook, and Google to collect user data. The study comes in the wake of the European Union’s newly-enacted GDPR laws designed to protect users from predatory data collection and Facebook’s own controversy involving the sharing of users’ personal data.