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Summary below article title: Three key parts of Facebook’s model come into play: gathering data from people in order to profile them, designing systems that al

Summary below article title: Three key parts of Facebook’s model come into play: gathering data from people in order to profile them, designing systems that allow that data to be used to target people, then allowing third parties to use the data and those targeting systems for their own purposes Back in Nov 2017, when the senate was questioning Facebook, Google, and Twitter about the Russian ads during the election... Burr issued a warning to the sites, saying they are on the front lines of defense for the security of the country's future, urging the representatives: "Don't let nation states disrupt our future." I sleep better knowing The Zuck is on the frontline keeping us safe. /s

HenryBemis 9y ago
Facebook treats people's volunteered information as goods-for trade. And business is booming!! Politics aside, I wonder how this will affect the "Russian intervention in US and UK politics" search for "truth". I am also expecting that UK authorities will be paying a visit to "Cambridge Analytica" and I hope we will find out the truth on what exactly they did for the UK Referendum, US Elections, and wherever else they "helped people decide". Something tells me though that we won't ever be told the truth. E.g. let's say that there was no Russian interventios to US election and it was all Cambridge Analytica's doing. With Theresa May driving the attention away from the actual problems and into a "UK-Russia" debate about the death of a spy, it would NOT serve her political agenda of smoke-and-mirrors to clear Russia's name (just theorising - I don't take sides). Ps: I remember a saying "live by the sword - die by the sword". How do people expect a spy (who has been uncovered) to die? In his bed on his 90s?
- cryptoz 9y ago
  > let's say that there was no Russian interventios to US election I know you're posing a hypothetical, but your scenario is impossible. Over a dozen Russians have already been indicted. Russia was involved. Period.
  - talmand 9y ago
    Personally, I'm waiting on the indictments of the US citizens, including high-level federal employees/politicians that have done the much same thing for decades in other countries.
    - ZeroGravitas 9y ago
      You're in luck. The company this article is talking about was part owned by an American, and had an American high-level federal employeee as Vice President and their CEO has just been captured on tape talking about having done much the same thing in several other countries. Maybe you'll get your wish.
- m3kw9 9y ago
  how is this news to anyone? Just about every player in the free to use game will use or share your data either directory or indirectly.
- simonh 9y ago
  Let’s say that all the extensive evidence of these people doing this thing doesn’t exist... no thanks. >How do people expect a spy.... to die? Pretty sure the guy’s daughter and the British police officer incapacitated in hospital, by a military nerve agent with no cure, weren’t expecting to end up this way. I think you’ve been watching too many Bond movies.

HenryBemis 9y ago

Facebook treats people's volunteered information as goods-for trade. And business is booming!! Politics aside, I wonder how this will affect the "Russian intervention in US and UK politics" search for "truth". I am also expecting that UK authorities will be paying a visit to "Cambridge Analytica" and I hope we will find out the truth on what exactly they did for the UK Referendum, US Elections, and wherever else they "helped people decide". Something tells me though that we won't ever be told the truth. E.g. let's say that there was no Russian interventios to US election and it was all Cambridge Analytica's doing. With Theresa May driving the attention away from the actual problems and into a "UK-Russia" debate about the death of a spy, it would NOT serve her political agenda of smoke-and-mirrors to clear Russia's name (just theorising - I don't take sides). Ps: I remember a saying "live by the sword - die by the sword". How do people expect a spy (who has been uncovered) to die? In his bed on his 90s?

cryptoz 9y ago
> let's say that there was no Russian interventios to US election I know you're posing a hypothetical, but your scenario is impossible. Over a dozen Russians have already been indicted. Russia was involved. Period.
- talmand 9y ago
  Personally, I'm waiting on the indictments of the US citizens, including high-level federal employees/politicians that have done the much same thing for decades in other countries.
  - ZeroGravitas 9y ago
    You're in luck. The company this article is talking about was part owned by an American, and had an American high-level federal employeee as Vice President and their CEO has just been captured on tape talking about having done much the same thing in several other countries. Maybe you'll get your wish.
m3kw9 9y ago
how is this news to anyone? Just about every player in the free to use game will use or share your data either directory or indirectly.
simonh 9y ago
Let’s say that all the extensive evidence of these people doing this thing doesn’t exist... no thanks. >How do people expect a spy.... to die? Pretty sure the guy’s daughter and the British police officer incapacitated in hospital, by a military nerve agent with no cure, weren’t expecting to end up this way. I think you’ve been watching too many Bond movies.