We scraped the data of a hundred thousand users, analyzed it, and sold it to a political consulting firm, who used it in a hyper-savvy campaign of digital targeting to put their man in office. When news of that broke, it caused a flurry of hypocritical breast-beating around the world. I was called to testify before Congress, and for four hours I was the most famous CEO in the country. But the legislators were too benighted by the whole rise of social media to stay on course or to grasp what was happening. Once we established the legality of our end-user agreements and our use of the data, they
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