Cmv: i believe that information monopolies should be treated the same way as any economic monopoly.:
Although mergers of big companies are carefully analyzed before getting a green light, so as to not distort competition by creating a single company with too much power, the purchase of smaller companies by big companies is not considered problematic, even if the value of the small company is huge. For example the acquisition of Whatsapp by Facebook gave Facebook a huge amount of personal information, which is Facebook main business model, putting it in a leading position to sell this data. However, not only has there not been any analysis of the merger, I also feel some right of our has been violated, the moment Facebook gained the right to do as it wishes with my data without my consent and without giving me an option to opt out and delete the data. Just because I trusted company A with my data does not give company B, the buyer, my trust.