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Candle – the privacy friendly smart home(candlesmarthome.com)
4 points by socialcooling 7y ago|0 comments
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by socialcooling 9y ago
That's pretty asinine too. You're not allowed to advocate a different life than the one you're leading? It's like the people saying you can't promote a greener environment if you still own a car. It's just anot
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by socialcooling 9y ago
Social Cooling is related to a number of concepts, including Foucault's panopticon. But Social Cooling is about much more than "individuals change their behavior when observed"(the Hawthorne effect). That's only the star
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by socialcooling 9y ago
It's not 'obvious'. The goal of that chart is not to be a perfect representation of history. It's to show 'greatest hits'. Foucault was a superstar-philosopher who was a regular TV guest. His panopticon analysi
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by socialcooling 9y ago
The difference is: - scale - transparency (ability to complain or discuss decisions). - culture: people can recognize normal discrimination, but think algorithmic judgements are 'neutral'. Check out https://www.mathwash
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by socialcooling 9y ago
Ignorance is not a way out. In 2015 the databroker market was already worth 150 billion dollars in the US alone. (source: FCC report on databrokers)
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by socialcooling 9y ago
Those buttons are privacy-friendly (as stated right above them). They don't load any tracking scripts.
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by socialcooling 9y ago
I had the same problem.
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by socialcooling 9y ago
Yes, it's becoming more difficult to argue that users are giving 'informed consent' when they sign up to 'free' services. In the EU the new GDPR law is already making the 'informed consent' requirement mor
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by socialcooling 9y ago
Author here: I also worry about Learned Helplessness, where we believe that there is nothing we can do about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness In Silicon Valley the Technological Determinist view
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by socialcooling 9y ago
Author here: Being trained as a media theorist I understand your criticism (and am going to check out Horkheimer's essay, thanks for the tip!). But this website purposefully tries to keep things accessible in order to reach a wider aud
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by socialcooling 9y ago
Author of the website here: The website does link to a lot of scientific studies actually. Both throughout the page and at the bottom. But I purposefully didn't want to link directly to the PDF's of those studies too much. By poin