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Most Americans Feel They've Lost Control Of Their Online Data

Firms like Facebook use a business model that makes use of people's data. But not all data is created equal. Sharing purchasing habits? Most say that's OK. But private communications? No way.
A collage of profile pictures featured on a break room wall at the North Carolina Facebook Data Center in 2012.

On Monday, Facebook began notifying the up to 87 million users whose information may have been compromised and given to Cambridge Analytica. As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress Tuesday and Wednesday, lawmakers like Sen. Bill Nelson have raised privacy concerns.

"If you and other social media companies do not get your act in order, none of us are going to have privacy anymore," Nelson,

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