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Reflective piece

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My scores were much the same on the digital literary test except for ‘Participating in online communities’ and ‘Managing online privacy and security’. I believe the reason for this is because the unit has grown my knowledge and understanding of these areas. Especially the breadth of online communities and the severity of online security which we saw in the Cambridge Analytica case study in week 4. My main takeaway from this module will be based around following the changing space of regulation in digital marketing and the internet in general. The fact that Cambridge Analytica were not punished for what they did - just how they did it proves the comment that Bright made on my first blog post , the sluggishness of regulation change/implementation has made it obsolete.  The data-heavy era we currently reside in has and continues to progress faster than regulation can be written to control it, meaning that scandals such as Cambridge Analytica are destined to continue until the