Tag: Facebook
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Discrimination’s Digital Frontier
Written by Aaron Rieke and Corrine Yu on The Atlantic.
“A recent study led by researchers at Northeastern University and the University of Southern California shows that, given a large group of people who might be eligible to see an advertisement, Facebook will pick among them based on its own profit-maximizing calculations, sometimes serving ads to audiences that are skewed heavily by race and gender.”
“An ad system that is designed to maximize clicks, and to maximize profits for Facebook, will naturally reinforce these social inequities and so serve as a barrier to equal opportunity.”
Read ‘Discrimination’s Digital Frontier’ on the The Atlantic site.
Tagged with: discrimination, ads, Facebook.
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Are you serious Mr Zuckerberg?
Written by Privacy International staff on Privacy International.
“Facebook is seeking yet again to apportion blame for its failures elsewhere - this time on governments for failing to regulate. Yet Facebook continually obstructs regulatory reform with its powerful lobbying capabilities, appeals against regulatory judgments and then investigates its critics.”
Read ‘Are you serious Mr Zuckerberg?’ on the Privacy International site.
Tagged with: facebook, regulation, privacy.
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Silicon Valley Darkness and Being a Woman
I’m not committing to a weekly anything! Incidentally, here’s the best bookmarks I saved in Week 9, 2019.
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As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
Written by Gabriel J.X. Dance, Michael LaForgia and Nicholas Confessore on New York Times.
“Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.
The social network permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends, and it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer, despite public statements that it had stopped that type of sharing years earlier.”
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Apple moves to thwart Facebook tracking
Written by Jack Morse on Mashable.
“Notably, these protections won’t do privacy-conscious consumers any good while they’re logged into Facebook, but it will help to protect them from the social network’s ever-expanding grasp while they’re logged out.”
Read ‘Apple moves to thwart Facebook tracking’ on the Mashable site.
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The Sticky, Pocked Underbelly Of The Web
This week’s roundup covers Swiss Cheese Internet vs The Database Of Ruin, The Right To Be Forgotten, and Diversity. Lots of variety!
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Windows To Your Soul
In this week’s Ind.ie roundup, I wrote about privacy, politics, tracking, Timelines, and a little thing called “corporate nullification.”
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The Social Web: A Glorious Dystopia
Lots of good quotes and a book recommendation in this week’s Ind.ie roundup.
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The Destiny Machine
Last Friday’s roundup was back to business as usual, after a couple of weeks of re:publica-related work. We’ve got the latest in the world of Spyware 2.
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Europe fights back
Last Friday’s Ind.ie roundup had more on corporate surveillance, a couple of great videos with Edward Snowden, and Europe fighting back against Google and Facebook.
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