Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was not even born in early 1982 when the mandated breakup of Bell System began, a move that ultimately slashed the value of the giant and previously unassailable AT&T by 70 percent. He was 15 when Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found that Microsoft was

Consumers repudiate and recoil from a central organising principle of modern marketing: that brands can — and do — target advertising and other messages at them based on their web browsing behaviour and other personal data. Participants in the global digital marketing ecosystem have convinced themselves that consumers are thoroughly

Our cover story this week on consumer attitudes to data surveillance clearly hit a nerve. The reaction of many industry leaders we contacted in preparation for our report speaks volumes — many bolted for the exit as soon as they saw the questions. Perhaps they watched Mark Zuckerberg and his executives