Tech companies, whose business model is based on collecting data about its users and using it to sell ads, frequently oppose consumer privacy legislation. But privacy advocates say Facebook is uniquely aggressive in opposing all forms of regulation on its technology. And the strategy has been working. Bills that would have created new consumer data … Continue reading Facebook & Facial Recognition
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Notes on an Emergency
"But at the same time, I’m not convinced that a civilization that is struggling to cure male-pattern baldness is ready to take on the Grim Reaper. If we’re going to worry about existential risk, I would rather we start by addressing the two existential risks that are indisputably real—nuclear war and global climate change—and working … Continue reading Notes on an Emergency
Information Operations and Facebook
Facebook has published a report, "Information Operations and Facebook" that outlines how Information Operations, defined as the actions of organizations to distort political sentiment, are conducted on the Facebook platform. It does a remarkable job of ignoring the inherent contradiction and conflict of interest of a company that makes its money delivering advertising trying to … Continue reading Information Operations and Facebook
Be Seeing You, Facebook
tl;dr: I have decided to delete my Facebook account. To use Facebook is to consent to being spied upon and manipulated. To quote from the television show, The Prisoner: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!" Join me, and quit Facebook today. (1175 words) "In … Continue reading Be Seeing You, Facebook
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