Lizzie O'Shea is a human rights lawyer. She is author of "Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology."
At stake is the right to engage online without being watched, tracked or managed

Facebook's profits flow from its capacity to generate highly specific and disaggregated audiences for advertising. © Reuters
Lizzie O'Shea is a human rights lawyer. She is author of "Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology."