# Professor Nicholas Economides predicts that Facebook will be subject to regulation in connection with its users' data and privacy

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— August 6, 2018

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Excerpt from [TheStreet.com](https://realmoney.thestreet.com/articles/08/06/2018/can-advertisers-unfriend-facebook) -- "'The default setting for Facebook data sharing should be to opt out, not in,' [[Economides](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nicholas-economides)] said. "Regulation could impose this and Facebook would then have to induce users to opt in to this program to have data shared.'"

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