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FBI seeks to monitor Facebook, oversee mass social media data collection
- jammygit 7y agoPeople claim the slippery slope argument when you complain about tech surveillance, but now it is almost a turnkey situation for a government to begin attempting to predict and control a given behaviour at a historically impossible scale. They can just pick the thing they want to try to monitor and manipulate and most of the data and collection/analysis infrastructure is there waiting.
- lioeters 7y agoThe article describes FB being stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand: > [The FBI] is planning to aggressively harvest [publicly available] information from Facebook and Twitter [via third-party vendors]. ..and on the other: > ..the nature of the [$5 billion settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission] requires Facebook to prevent mass data gathering without consent -- whether or not the information is public or set to private. > [FB's policy includes] a ban imposed on developers for "[using] data obtained from us to provide tools that are used for surveillance." I'm sure an exception can be made (by legal force) to provide a FaceBook Integration platform for all interested parties. The only loser here is the public.