Snap's IPO Might Be a Huge Win for Privacy
A viable media business can be built without invasion of privacy after all.
Donald Trump may be the best thing that could happen to Snap’s upcoming initial public offering.
It’s not just that Snap’s Snapchat app stands to gain millions of users as people flee the noxious political cloud that has enveloped Facebook like pollution on a red-alert day in Beijing. There’s an even more significant way the new president will help the company: He is stoking fears about privacy and an Orwellian surveillance state, and Snap is one of the few social media companies that doesn’t base its business model on knowing everything it can about you. So, the thinking goes, a few years down the road, maybe you’ll be able to enjoy mainstream media on Snapchat absent the worry you’ll get a midnight knock on the door.
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