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You Think You Have Nothing To Hide?
Then why are Big Tech moguls making billions from what you and others tell them?The bottom line is this: if you think you don’t have anything to hide, then you don’t understand how the modern data economy really works, nor the impact of being caught in a riptide of public opinion.
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Facebook “Likes” Cryptocurrency
We asked Jonathan Bartlett, what the new coin, Libra, means for Facebook? For crypto?Avoiding having to judge between currencies "solves a political problem for Facebook, but I don't see that it solves problems for anyone else," Bartlett says.
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Facebook Moderators Are Not Who We Think
Companies offer terrible working conditions partly because they think AI will just take over soonAnd if that doesn’t—and perhaps can’t—happen, what’s the backup plan? Lawsuits?
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Will Facebook’s New Focus on “Community” Groups Prevent Abuses?
When you look a little closer at the proposal, you will see that the answer is noFacebook's move to a more group-focused interface gives the appearance of stronger privacy and community orientation but the structure and logic of social media ensure that these are appearances rather than realities.
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Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Expose a Key Problem
Most moderators are not skilled and have only a few seconds to decide on a post
Facebook is said to be exploring minting its own cryptocurrency
If Facebook wants to mint private currency, can it still be the judge of morals and manners among users?A software engineer and tech blogger sees ideas sprout up all over, including both the absurd and the brilliant, as traditional companies try to incorporate cryptocurrencies into their business model.
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Facebook’s old motto was “Move fast and break things”
With the current advertising scandal, it might be breaking itself
Hacks damage Facebook, kill Google+
The internet changes everything. For example, it makes the Big Guys more vulnerable, not less vulnerable, than bit players
Who built AI? You did, mostly
Along with millions of others, you are providing free training data
Giant Google’s Vulnerable Spot
Social media are free because we are both the content and the market
Big Question: Can Big Data Read the Minds of Others?
And should Facebook scan your posts for suicidal thoughts? (It does.)Neurologist Robert Burton reflects at Aeon on the fact that mind reading does not really work. Most fashionable theories of mind, like the mirror neuron theory, have not really been much use: This is not to say that we have no idea of what goes on in another’s mind. The brain is a superb pattern-recogniser; we routinely correctly anticipate that others will feel grief at a funeral, joy at a child’s first birthday party, and anger when cut off on the freeway. We are right often enough to trust our belief that others generally will feel as we do. More. True, but the problem isn’t with recognizing what most people probably think; it’s with recognizing unusual but important patterns. How Read More ›