Netflix’s The Social Dilemma highlights the problem with social media, but what’s the solution? https://theconversation.com/netflixs-the-social-dilemma-highlights-the-problem-with-social-media-but-whats-the-solution-147351
In the long run, stemming the flow of personal data to digital platforms will need legislative change. While legislation can’t fix everything, it can encourage systemic change.
Last year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission finalised its Digital Platforms Inquiry investigating a range of issues relating to tech platforms, including data collection and privacy. It's focus was on ... improving and bolstering the definitions of “consent” for consumers, including explicit understanding of when and how their data is being tracked online.
If what we’re facing is indeed a “social dilemma”, it’s going to take more than the remorseful words of a few Silicon Valley tech-bros to solve it.