In a column for BBC News, James Melik explores Internet privacy in light of policy changes by companies like Google and Facebook. Promontory Financial Group Managing Director Simon McDougall says consumers should be concerned about privacy, but points out that free online services must be paid for somehow. "If you pay money for a product, you get a product," says McDougall. "If you do not pay money for a product, you are the product." The Centre for Digital Democracy's Jeff Chester, however, is concerned that companies "are expanding their data collection techniques and they are not telling consumers and citizens why."
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