Re: Cambridge Analytica
Posted: 2018-04-10 12:04
Due to the fact that the Central Intelligence Agency and NSA is not drowningFernando Negro wrote:Ever wondered why Zuckerberg covers the camera and microphone of his laptop?
Due to the fact that the Central Intelligence Agency and NSA is not drowningFernando Negro wrote:Ever wondered why Zuckerberg covers the camera and microphone of his laptop?
Job security always threatens activism.In my mind, the scary sort of parts of Facebook is the fake news, the filter bubble, the online tribes that don’t speak to each other, the political polarization. The organic side, to me, is scarier than the ad side...the reality is that Facebook is cognitive dissonance at scale. Cognitive dissonance is the feeling of awkwardness you feel when your worldview gets contradicted in some concrete way...the algorithm, by default, is designed to placate you by shielding you from the things you don’t want to hear about.
(Nonexistent) editorship is also something I never really considered with the way Facebook selectively hashes ads:One thing that I think is annoying is the lack of moral courage in Silicon Valley. No one takes a stand on anything ‘cause the opportunity costs can be so great given the winner-take-all nature of it...
The other way of looking at it is that historically, we had editorship for a few reasons. One, it was an appeal to authority. “These people just understand these political issues, whatever, better.” The other is — maybe not so much in the U.S., but certainly in Europe — that the editor should edify us...Basically, editors are there to tell you to eat your vegetables. Facebook is kind of like, “Well, the algorithm says to feed you just endless sugar and fat, right, and that’s what we’re going to do.” These people have just abdicated any sort of responsibility toward informing or educating the public. Somehow, we have subconsciously accepted that.
Z(s)uck to begin with: Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new European privacy law.debiman wrote:nobody seems to give a rat's ass about that.
duh:nsuchy wrote:Not sure if anyone saw the news but apparently the firm is shutting down.
and also read the rest of this page. wouldn't want you to miss important information.debiman wrote:i wrote about CA's bankruptcy yesterday
facebook as a company might be a bit safer in Trumpistan, it migth save them from (further) fines, but - AFAICS - this has little impact on the fact that their services have to abide to EU's stricter privacy law.alan stone wrote:Z(s)uck to begin with: Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new European privacy law.
Yeah, that looks interesting.oswaldkelso wrote:Netflix: The Great Hack ... Democracy is dead
Depends on the relationships, kids & job — I have all three but no FaceBook account. I don't even need email for $DAY_JOBpylkko wrote:A person in their teens now, can "delete their facebook etc", but then they will face not being able to have a relationship, kids, a job.
I see your point, but I fear that the kind of situation you describe will become ever more rare as time passes.Head_on_a_Stick wrote:Depends on the relationships, kids & job — I have all three but no FaceBook account. I don't even need email for $DAY_JOBpylkko wrote:A person in their teens now, can "delete their facebook etc", but then they will face not being able to have a relationship, kids, a job.
the trick is to hide in plain sightpylkko wrote:Also, if you have a smart phone (not rooted and with a custom ROM) you know that all your searches, locations, contacts. etc are being mined.
That can be mitigated to some extent by using something like LineageOS with FDroid instead of the Play Store and startpage as the search engine in FF.pylkko wrote:if you have a smart phone (not rooted and with a custom ROM) you know that all your searches, locations, contacts. etc are being mined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8a8yG0uEawChina is developing a "social credit system" to evaluate its citizens' behavior. The system uses a point scheme to reward good conduct and punish bad conduct -- such as criticizing the government, or even running a red traffic light.
People who pay their bills too late or drink too much alcohol will be given penalty points, and could face travel restrictions or have their financial credit rating lowered. Good conduct could be rewarded with discounts on bookings for hotels or rental cars. The system will use the millions of suveillance cameras that have been installed throughout China -- plus facial-recognition- and motion-profile technology -- to keep track of people. The "social credit system" is now in the testing phase, and it's already become controversial. It's scheduled to be introduced in Beijing next year.
In our report, we'll meet a young woman who works as a marketing manager, and has a good behavior rating. She says it may help to get her young son into a top-quality school. We also talk to a journalist whose reports on corruption earned him a bad score. The authorities then blocked his social-media accounts, and banned him from flying on passenger jets. The "social credit system" has hit one of China's ethnic minorities particularly hard: the mostly-Muslim Uighurs, who live in the northwestern autonomous region of Xinjiang.