AMONG THE MEGA-CORPORATIONS that surveil you, your cellphone carrier has always been one of the keenest monitors, in constant contact with the one small device you keep on you at almost every moment. A confidential Facebook document reviewed by The Intercept shows that the social network courts carriers, along with phone makers — some 100 different companies in 50 countries — by offering the use of even more surveillance data, pulled straight from your smartphone by Facebook itself.
Offered to select Facebook partners, the data includes not just technical information about Facebook members’ devices and use of Wi-Fi and cellular networks, but also their past locations, interests, and even their social groups. This data is sourced not just from the company’s main iOS and Android apps, but from Instagram and Messenger as well. The data has been used by Facebook partners to assess their standing against competitors, including customers lost to and won from them, but also for more controversial uses like racially targeted ads.
Tag: Weapons of Math Destruction
📑 Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever | The Intercept
📑 Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever | The Intercept
📑 Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever | The Intercept
📑 Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever | The Intercept
🎧 Episode 011 – Surveillance Capitalism and Digital Redlining | Media and the End of the World Podcast
We are joined by Chris Gilliard, Professor of English at Macomb Community College. His scholarship concentrates on privacy, institutional tech policy, digital redlining, and the re-inventions of discriminatory practices through data mining and algorithmic decision-making, especially as these apply to college students. He is currently developing a project that looks at how popular misunderstandings of mathematical concepts create the illusions of fairness and objectivity in student analytics, predictive policing, and hiring practices. Follow him on Twitter at @hypervisible.
Show Notes
- Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms (Educause)
- Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law (ProPublica)
- How Youth Navigate the News Landscape (Knight Foundation)
I’m a bit surprised to find that I’ve been blocked by Chris Gilliard (@hypervisible) on Twitter. I hope I haven’t done or said anything in particular to have offended him. More likely I may have been put on a block list to which he’s subscribed?? Just not sure. I’ll have to follow him from another account as I’m really interested in his research particularly as it applies to fixing these areas within the edtech space and applications using IndieWeb principles. I think this may be the first instance that I’ve gone to someone’s account to notice that I’ve been blocked.
👓 The Most Measured Person in Tech Is Running the Most Chaotic Place on the Internet | New York Times
YouTube’s C.E.O. spends her days contemplating condoms and bestiality, talking advertisers off the ledge and managing a property the size of Netflix.
📑 YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
Examples:
But nothing on the embedded versions:
A screengrab of what this looks like for those that don’t want to be “infected” by the algorithmic act of visiting these YouTube pages:
🎧 How President Trump’s Angry Tweets Can Ripple Across Social Media | NPR
When Trump posts a mean tweet, how does it make its way across social media into the American consciousness? Researchers crunched the numbers to see if his negative tweets were shared more often.
📑 YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
I can still remember the different “loudness” level of talk between Bill O’Reilly’s primetime show on Fox News and the louder level on his radio show.
📑 YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
This is another great example of tech ignoring basic ethics to get to a monetary goal. (Another good one is Marc Zuckerberg’s “connecting people” mantra when what he should be is “connecting people for good” or “creating positive connections”.
📑 YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
📑 YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
👓 Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa | Bloomberg
A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands.
🎧 The Daily: Silicon Valley’s Military Dilemma | New York Times
Should Big Tech partner with the Pentagon? We examine a cautionary tale.
I’m surprised that for it’s share of profits that Down didn’t spin off the napalm division to some defense contractor?
Of course some tech companies are already weaponizing their own products against people. What about those ethical issues.