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What danger do you foresee in your thought experiments?
by omarchowdhury 7y ago
What danger do you foresee in your thought experiments?
- britch 7y agoHi user, we noticed you've clicked on and visited a number of sites for gay bars while on vacation. Your home government in XYZ is cracking down on "immoral behavior" and has compelled us to send us a list of users who have interests like yours. Yes we know you never publicly posted about being gay or joined a group for gay men, but your internet history says differently.
- omarchowdhury 7y agoFacebook has sold hundreds of billions clicks globally to advertisers, most likely trillions. Has there been one incident of the scenario you've described?
- kyboren 7y ago>>> What danger do you foresee in your thought experiments? >> [example foreseen danger] > Has there been one incident of the scenario you've described? Don't shift the goal posts. You asked for a foreseen danger. @britch gave an example foreseen danger. I also think the example is unfortunately realistic. I would not be surprised if in the near future repressive governments attempt to compel data brokers, pimps, and hoarders to provide information on 'undesirables'.
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- bryan_w 7y agoWhy wouldn't they just go to that users isp and get that info?
- ceejayoz 7y agoDo you typically use your home ISP "while on vacation"?
- 50656E6973 7y agoMicrotargeted mass manipulation for questionable political ends https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#Methods https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#Methods
- JohnFen 7y agoThe danger that I foresee is that additional information about me will leak to companies that I don't want it leaked to. That is sufficient all by itself, even if that information is never overtly used in a way that personally harms me.