Mr. David Cicilline:

Of great concern to many, including me, is that Facebook has become a dominant communications network while running a behavioural advertisement-based business model. It seems increasingly clear that this combination is lethal for our democracy. There was a reason AT&T was never allowed to surveil the conversations of telephone users to sell them advertisements. What problems does Mr. Rotenberg see with the behavioural advertisement business model? What does he think should be done about these problems? Rather than improving transparency in the online ecosystem or policing the use of data collection, should there be an outright ban on behavioural advertising?