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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://level1techs.com/video/level1-news-april-17-2018-o-come-all-ye-scrapers
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://level1techs.com/video/level1-news-april-17-2018-o-come-all-ye-scrapers
Wait.
Thais aint the lounge…
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Those Dubai license plates sound very Orwellian.
(Privacy)
lumping a number of concerns under privacy is a bit of a “look a squirrel” strategy. It differs the implications of privacy from the public’s concerns to what social media addresses. Just look at the privacy settings. It has everything to do with what other patrons can see and nothing to do with what the company, their partners and the government can see. The public’s interest in privacy isn’t even addressed. There is some pretty disgusting slight of hand in the social engineering there. It’s a good idea to be concerned about how social media addresses privacy; because all they have to do is play with semantics to get around it.
(malevolent app bounty)
I’m pretty sure I could make a case against the Facebook messaging app.
There are many, many ways to collect information from the pole game pictorials that are all over Facebook. Going after apps is just a drop in the bucket. There are so many routs to abuse that it just can’t be stopped. Facebook is losing revenue from clever people who can talk people out of their shirts with posts. Information really does want to be free.
For instance the porn name game gets middle initials. Profiles have not only the first and last name but in many cases maiden names; which is bad news for grown children. “What’s your mother’s maiden name”.
This is all coupled with Facebook’s entry slots for “home town”, “where you went to school”, “where you work”, “music, TV shows and movies you like” etc. etc. Hoarding data in social media is an up hill battle because everyone else is just as clever at obtaining it; and Facebook is paying the bills for the overhead. Facebook like “the bucket brigade” leaks credit. 
BTW Facebook doesn’t care; they want to be compensated for the data they’ve aggregated. It’s a make them a partner or run them off sort of thing… probably.
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I have a few remarks about Ajit Pai using the 1st Amendment and Free Speech as reasons for defending Sinclair’s growing influence on local broadcasters.
While I am one for free speech, and you should be able to speak your mind without consequence, Pai is defending their use of a medium that the average person cannot utilize. Anyone can protest in the streets, or start a website (with some strings attached). Cable or over the air television is a platform that only a handful of people are allowed to speak on. To say that Pai is defending their right to monopolize local TV stations rights to free speech would suggest that you or I am also allowed to broadcast stuff on television when in reality it is a privilege to do so. More importantly, it is one that is granted by the FCC, not by mere circumstance.
If one is really concerned about free speech in regards to local television and radio broadcasting, they would severely limit how many stations you’re allowed to own (perhaps even revoke broadcasting licenses of monopolies), and make the licensing of new stations much easier for enthusiasts and smaller parties. The roll out of LPFM is a good example.
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Oh god don’t even know where to begin commenting on this episode. So many countries are implementing dodgy Orwellian laws/technology and ignoring any violations of user privacy Ala Facebook. What can we do about this dangerous trend?
A problem with this Facebook debate is how the company can get away with allowing people to be tracked who DON’T EVEN USE IT. Surely any basic democratic nation should be able to legally do something about this if they still have any teeth, or the balls to do something about it. My biggest problem with Facebook is how much it collections involuntarily (especially from the mobile app) and how easy it is for a “friend” to use an app or find some other way to compromise your data. If anyone has their tech illiterate family members on their Facebook, watch out!
EDIT: Oh and I saw an old documentary about Facebook where the Zuck admitted that Whatsapp data could be sold for $3 per person. Sadly not able to find this snippet I saw on the internet anymore.
The difficulty in going after Facebook is making a case of wrong doing that will stand in the supreme court; which is corrupt.
What Facebook and many other companies are doing is called theft by deception; and the way their doing it is difficult to prove beyond reasonable doubt. For instance, no one reads the EULA because it’s generally unintelligible. This is because of the language it’s written in. Distributions of interest and aptitude prevent the average person from understanding the agreement. Only a very small percentage of populations actually comprehend what the agreement says. This means that people are agreeing to something that they don’t understand. This is a problem because to become a subscriber, one needs to click a tic box that says clearly “I have read and understand the agreement”. This differs the responsibility to the user. Facebook can claim that they were under the impression that the users understood the agreement; even though they are well aware that only a very small percentage do.
On top of this, Facebook can change the agreement at any time, for any reason. all they have to do is document the changes; in a manner that is readily available to the user. They don’t really have to announce coming changes to the agreement either because that’s in the initial agreement and every succeeding agreement.
There is a great expectation that is being exploited; not only by Facebook, but also by all other social media platforms… by the same model. This is a predatory model; and all of them are quite aware of it. This happens in a process that is well understood in economics. When one business chooses a predatory model for unfair advantage, other businesses follow suit to compete. This is very likely how this happened.
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