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Facebook Ups Surveillance of Users to Keep Tabs on People Who Don't Like It
- mthoms 8y agoWow. That title is click-baity, fear mongering, garbage (and the post isn't much better). One might as well just read the non-blogspam version, which is indeed quite interesting: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/facebooks-security-team-tracks-posts-location-for-bolo-threat-list.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/facebooks-security-team-trac... I'm actually still trying to wrap my head around the second part of this post. I mean, how cynical does one have to be to suggest Facebook's anti-suicide measures are purely profit motivated? That's just ridiculous. Finally, the post seems to imply, without any statistical evidence, that the anti-suicide measures will result in an increase in deaths (because cops kill every mental health patient they come in contact with ... or something). For the record, I dislike FB as much as anyone. But really Techdirt?
- salawat 8y agoNot very cynical when you're talking about a for-profit company that monetizes their users.