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Sheryl Sandberg on the future of privacy

Facebook's critics will cry "big brother": they hate the implications of "Zuckerberg's law"

By The Economist online

SHERYL SANDBERG, Facebook's chief executive officer, has argued in The Economist's annual shot at prognostication, The World in 2012, that social media have been a force for good, encouraging things like charitable giving and political awareness. She talks to our sister blog, Cassandra, about the implications of a convergence between people's real and virtual lives.

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