Baranyai: Resisting census like shooting yourself in the foot

In modern life, there’s both a weariness and a wariness about sharing personal information online. Anyone not inherently cautious on social media certainly took notice when Facebook left the doors unlocked for Russian bot farms and Cambridge Analytica to undermine elections. All those personal status updates we shared for free helped tweak the platform’s algorithms to drive engagement, gin up division and sell invasively targeted ads, which somehow we grudgingly have accepted as the price of connection. Read More