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by 908087 8y ago
If my post is an inaccurate or unfair portryal of what Google is doing, Daniel, then perhaps you and your co-workers who have been downvoting (and I assume flagging) me can enlighten me as to what Google's actual goal is here?
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by 908087 8y ago
It may have sounded like I was joking, but I wasn't.
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by 908087 8y ago
The "moral compass" in the ad/surveillance industry was always set up to indicate the direction of money, and only existed as a tool for PR to begin with.
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by 908087 8y ago
I was specifically referring to his playing dumb about Palantir during that testimony. I agree that his pretending to be unfamiliar with shadow profiles was one of the more egregious lies presented to congress, though.
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by 908087 8y ago
If you took Zuckerberg's word for it, you'd be left thinking Facebook had never heard of Palantir.
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by 908087 8y ago
This post kind of reminded me of one of those drug commercials with old people happily skipping hand-in-hand through a field of flowers. The only difference is that you forgot to quickly list the many terrible side effects of your product
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by 908087 8y ago
If you're not just trolling, you should be aware that many of us who choose to have tattoos or vape would consider it a positive if those choices kept people with beliefs like your own far away from us.
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by 908087 8y ago
You mean the deepest secrets of everyone the NSA has been indiscriminately spying on?
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by 908087 8y ago
The only lesson learned here is: If you're going to pull a scam like this one, be sure to spend all of the money or hide it really well before you get caught. Good job, FTC. That'll show 'em.
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by 908087 8y ago
Facebook collects data about non users as well, so your claim that people who never opted in can somehow opt out is bullshit.
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by 908087 8y ago
So regulators should just take their word for it and allow them to slide on compliance because they claim they would be showing more ads in some alternate reality if it weren't for targeting? That sounds like a loophole that would all
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by 908087 8y ago
> You could probably take it a step further and say that it is in the user’s best interest to see targeted rather than generic advertising, because you can show fewer ads and make the same revenue. I don’t know if regulators will buy it
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by 908087 8y ago
Actually, they do. It's called Google Analytics, and it exists on a very large portion of the web. TLS isn't going to help protect you when the site you're on is loaded with user tracking and analytics scripts anyway.
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by 908087 8y ago
If you have to dodge questions and lie to avoid making your company look bad, it's probably a sign that you're doing something you shouldn't be doing. This looks even worse coming from someone who runs a company that seeks to
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by 908087 8y ago
Schmidt loves surveillance, and openly idolizes Henry Kissinger. He's probably the most terrifying possibility of the three people I mentioned.
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by 908087 8y ago
If the democrats run Zuckerberg, Sandberg, or Eric Schmidt, they'll once again be losing my vote. I don't even want to imagine what the future would look like under an administration run by someone from the surveillance capitalis
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by 908087 8y ago
Did you watch his recent testimony? If so, I'm not sure how you could possibly consider him someone worth looking up to as a leader. If you take everything he said and every question he dodged during his testimony at face value, it wou
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by 908087 8y ago
If they "don't generally care", they wouldn't be collecting that data to begin with.
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by 908087 8y ago
They should be doing this for Google as well, but something tells me we won't be seeing that any time soon.
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by 908087 8y ago
I assume these college students are using messenger via their cell phones , correct? Is it no longer possible to reach people via text or phone?
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by 908087 8y ago
Personally I'd mark having a Facebook account as a negative in terms of sanity.
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by 908087 8y ago
The sad thing here is that the people who need to hear what is said in this essay the most, no longer have the attention span to absorb it due to the damage Facebook and similar platforms have caused to their minds.
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by 908087 8y ago
It seemed like both an attempt to associate Assange/Wikileaks with the "alt-right", and an attempt to associate the desire to find out what Facebook has on you with the same. It felt forced and awkward in the context of the a
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by 908087 8y ago
That certainly wasn't spam, but unfortunately I was in the middle of something else at the time and didn't have time to post the explanation I probably should have included.
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by 908087 8y ago
The solution to this is here: https://decentraleyes.org
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by 908087 8y ago
> Because one problem at a time This is dealing with one problem at a time. The problem is unchecked commercialized mass surveillance, and any laws that come out of this should apply to Google, Facebook, and every other company that has
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by 908087 8y ago
I really can't even figure out what posessed the writer to put that line in there. It has absolutely nothing to do with the story, and kind of comes out of nowhere.
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by 908087 8y ago
Don't forget his Hawaiian privacy retreat, which last I heard he was building a massive wall around.
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by 908087 8y ago
When people like Zuckerberg preach about radical transparency and privacy being an outdated concept, they're referring to the type of radical transparency where they themselves remain opaque, while the rest of the world becomes transpa
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by 908087 8y ago
Does this mean Meadow sells counterfeit marijuana, pays such low wages that many of their employees need food stamps, and fosters an environment where employees feel the need to piss in bottles to avoid bathroom breaks?

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