Why did the NYT publish this today?

What triggered them?

Have they been following all the time?

Or was the chatter in DC causing them to strike now?

https:// www.cnbc.com/id/105113671

Social media users treated as 'experimental rats,' EU data watchdog says as he urges more changes from Facebook

•Facebook needs to make sure its new privacy rules are done in "practice and not only on paper," the European Union's top data watchdog told CNBC.

•The social network has unveiled a raft of new tools since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke.

•Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), criticized the data collection practices of social media firms.