The big news in the tech world today is Mark Zuckerberg's announcement that he plans to pivot Facebook from public postings to encrypted private messages. Data on Facebook will also become less permanent, he said. There are also suggestions that the new Facebook network would also enable financial transactions, emulating WeChat. What's not clear is whether Facebook itself will continue to aggregate and analyse individual data, and whether these services will be interoperable with non-Facebook services. There has been a lot of reaction across the web, too much to summarize here, but if I had to characterize it with a single phrase, I could call it a collective eye roll.
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