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What we've learned over the past year or two is that everything we all used to worry about NSA doing, Facebook is ACTUALLY doing. I was also one of those misle
by mhneu 8y ago
What we've learned over the past year or two is that everything we all used to worry about NSA doing, Facebook is ACTUALLY doing.
I was also one of those misled, and now know the NSA has controls and a democratic governance structure atop them (as do the other four agencies in UK, Canada, NZ, Aus) that restrict what they do for lawful, democratically-endorsed uses only.
Surveillance capitalism at Facebook (good description here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/facebook_and_ca.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/facebook_and_... ) is a bigger threat to democracies.
- rasengan 8y ago> lawful, democratically-endorsed uses only. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT
- mhneu 8y agoYes, but note from the page: those unauthorized accesses were reported and the employees were sanctioned including demotion, etc. On the private side, it can be worse, because the governance structure is not always there. https://bgr.com/2016/12/13/uber-privacy-and-security/ https://bgr.com/2016/12/13/uber-privacy-and-security/ Uber employees helped ex-boyfriends stalk ex-girlfriends, and were even able to access trip information for celebrities like Beyoncé, Reveal News explains. These revelations come from the company’s former in-house forensic investigator Ward Spangenberg. Agreed from comment above this one - it's a problem both for govts and for private industry. I think what democratic societies need is an agreed framework for how as a society we regulate such data collection (as Schneier argues in the link I posted above, or as Doctorow has recently argued.)
- mindslight 8y agoYou don't have to put down one concern in order to draw attention to another. Commercial and government surveillance are both serious problems.