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+---
+title: "Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights"
+date: 2019-11-21T15:29:54Z
+type: ["lens"]
+tags: ["Facebook", "Google", "human rights"]
+categories: ["Laura’s Lens"]
+body_classes: "lens"
+postURL: "https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/"
+publication: "Amnesty International"
+writer: "Amnesty International/Kumi Naidoo"
+image: "image.jpg"
+---
+
+> “Surveillance Giants lays out how the surveillance-based business model of Facebook and Google is inherently incompatible with the right to privacy and poses a systemic threat to a range of other rights including freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of thought, and the right to equality and non-discrimination.
+>
+>…
+>
+>The tech giants offer these services to billions without charging users a fee. Instead, individuals pay for the services with their intimate personal data, being constantly tracked across the web and in the physical world as well, for example, through connected devices.
+>
+>…
+>
+> The technology behind the internet is not incompatible with our rights, but the business model Facebook and Google have chosen is”