Now Facebook wants to be your bank
Sceptics point out the hazards of handing over information about our personal finances to a company that profits so much from our data
27 June 2019 - 05:00
Having exposed the personal details of tens of millions of its users and broken the concept of personal privacy, Facebook is going to ask people to trust it with their money.
That’s one cynical interpretation of last week’s headline-grabbing launch of a cryptocurrency that it claims will make "moving money around the world … as easy and cheap as sending a text message"...
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