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by mlb_hn 9y ago
It's continuing to like the most recent Facebook exposure is going to get a lot more public interest than Equifax or other previous exposures over the last decade. The author suggests that the key difference now is GDPR compliance will
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It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you(cnn.com)
299 points by mlb_hn 9y ago|110 comments
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
Although you're going to get down-voted, that's an actual problem. We don't know the full state of discourse before interference, during interference, or currently so it's a bit hard for anyone to say 'this is speci
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
The correct title is "How can Facebook change when it exists to exploit personal data?" (Looks like a 'N' got typo'd in there instead of a 'H')
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
There was some really cool research on changing food behavior after World War II by Kurt Lewin. They found that while price mattered, they also had to figure out the dynamics of who bought food and why all the way from the store to the pant
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
Also, he can't really use Facebook for it if his target audience is the people who stopped using Facebook (they wouldn't see it).
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
Gotta say, tried running for a while and I hated it. Tried lifting and I hated it. Then some friends showed me how to actually lift with a real routine, gained a ton of muscle and kept the belly in check, plus it was fun. Might be a similar
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
The author suggests fines as the third suggested purpose. The author's take on cleaning is mainly restricted to credit monitoring type deals, which overlaps with the second purpose. (which is part of why I'm saying I don't th
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
The author's suggested fix is "Let’s make a digital Environmental Protection Agency. Call it the Digital Protection Agency. Its job would be to clean up toxic data spills, educate the public, and calibrate and levy fines." A
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
> Google News made it quite obvious how redundant a lot of content is. Often articles are just exact copies of Reuters, AP, ... texts. Reuters and AP are newswire services which is meant to be used by multiple pubs because local pubs don
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
To your second point, I argued this sort of data was weaponsized and not just in an election ( http://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archives... ). To the third point, focusing on Facebook seems like t
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
Just putting this into context, NYT has an article "How China Is Challenging American Dominance in Asia" on their front page. Not saying it's intentional on their part, but it may be useful to understand how the title "C
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
I see that as well. There's been an interesting trend over at least the last several months where NYTimes has been promoting fears about China (No judgment as to the veracity of those fears). Definitely something to keep in mind when r
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Reddit Is Finally Reckoning with How It Helped Spread Russian Propaganda in 2016(slate.com)
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
TLDR: A bunch of purported IRA docs ended up on an online auction; Daily Beast went and talked to some of the Americans listed and confirmed the documented interactions with the Russians. The docs indicated that the IRA was targeting Reddit
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Secret Documents from Russia’s Election Trolls Leak(thedailybeast.com)
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
I was a human intelligence collector, although I'd also been running a small cell out of South Korea doing analysis in the region in 2016. The paper was in response to the July prompt of a quarterly contest, "Is the Army too antiq
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
I wrote this piece as I was leaving the Army, I was planning on letting it sit in the archives for a while but I guess I’ll go ahead and explain what it’s talking about. 1. The Russian information operations are not about the American elect
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Introduction to Data Driven Propaganda(armyupress.army.mil)
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Russian disinformation distorts American and European democracy(economist.com)
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
I don't get the justification for labeling the initial block as organic growth, unless they're claiming that only the horizontal stratification is signs of bot activity. The vertical stratification should also be signs of bot acti
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
On the graphics, it looks like the density changes for the rest of the dates whenever the identified bot families show up (creating the differently colored columns). When the identified bot families stop, the density changes back. Is that a
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How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt(nytimes.com)
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The KGB Playbook for Turning Russians Worldwide into Agents(thedailybeast.com)
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The KGB Playbook for Infiltrating the Middle East(thedailybeast.com)
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Revealed: The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies(thedailybeast.com)
17 points by mlb_hn 9y ago|1 comments