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Day: March 19, 2018

  • Facebook’s Surveillance Machine

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Zeynep Tufekc, for the New York Times:][link] >Mr. Grewal is right: This wasn’t a breach in the technical sense. It is something even more troubling: an all-too-natural consequence of Facebook’s business model, which involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance. The…

  • Cambridge Analytica’s Ad Targeting Is the Reason Facebook Exists

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    Phil Nelson
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    >[Thousands of third party apps were designed solely to obtain and sell your data. It’s no surprise that the data ended up being used again on Facebook, one of the biggest advertising platforms on Earth.](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbxgzb/cambridge-analytica-facebook-ad-targeting-third-party-apps)