David Puttnam: data misuse by digital giants “threatens democracy itself”

Fda chairman was delivering his annual keynote address to UK film distributors.Speaking in his annual keynote address as the president of the UK’s Film Distributors’ Association (Fda), David Puttnam has warned Us-based online giants such as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google must take action to tackle the misuse of users’ data.The revered UK producer of Chariots Of Fire and The Killing Fields highlighted that while the so-called Faang group, which now accounts for 10% of the entire Us stock market, have “improved our connected lives”, recent questions have emerged around the safety of private data.

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