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I think these (to the extent they are true) are just a bunch of synonyms for ad targeting, which people already intuitively understand. If an ad is targeted at
by shajznnckfke 6y ago
I think these (to the extent they are true) are just a bunch of synonyms for ad targeting, which people already intuitively understand. If an ad is targeted at you, obviously the information needed to do that has to exist somewhere. People may not know the technical terminology, but they understand it. I’m not just talking about the tech filter bubble. When I visit my rural family home, people talk to me about it. They joke about what the algorithm will think of this or that activity they do on a phone.
It’s not true that you can just buy a dossier on someone from Google or Facebook. That would make no sense, their business is rationing the use of that data by selling inferences (the gold eggs), not by selling the model (the golden goose).
- giantrobot 6y agoSo Facebook apps with access to your friends lists, group memberships, and likes aren't dossiers? As Cambridge Analytica should have demonstrated is relationship graphs are personal dossiers. They're significant predictors of habits and behavior. It's also trivial to link those graphs to selectors like phone numbers and email addresses. But let's pretend that because Facebook isn't providing third parties Manila folders full of photocopied papers that they're not selling your PII.
- shajznnckfke 6y agoWoah, motte, meet bailey! So by “selling dossiers” you actually meant “allows users to choose to share friends list for free”, a feature that does the same thing you can also do with your contacts list on iOS and Android? And you’re muddying the waters by bringing up a group of criminals that also used other, now defunct APIs?