"Every new medium (read: technology) has four sets of effects, he said, which can be best discovered in answers to four questions: What does the medium enhance What does the medium make obsolete? What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier? What does the medium reverse, or flip into, when pushed to extremes?" … Continue reading Redecentralize the Internet
Tag: Internet fiefdoms
Facebook & Facial Recognition
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
cafebedouin.org 