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A little uncomfortable that a company that spends $10m lobbying the government in its interests, is also now doing social policy research using their near-monop
by wbillingsley 11y ago
A little uncomfortable that a company that spends $10m lobbying the government in its interests, is also now doing social policy research using their near-monopoly on a particular sort of people's data. (This one, for instance, ties into social mobility which is always an argument that has currency with politicians.) Quite what they're arguing for behind the scenes is unknown ... but then that's part of the problem.
- smt88 11y agoThere's no "policy" to this research
- caseysoftware 11y agoThey're using this data for incredibly accurate targeting, allowing advertisers to effectively target race/ethnicities: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/18/facebook-showed-us-all-very-different-straight-outta-compton-trailers-based-on-race/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/18/facebook-showed-us-... I wrote a proof of concept on it last year too: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/social-apis-for-social-evil http://caseysoftware.com/blog/social-apis-for-social-evil