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Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users

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A comment on the WSJ brings up an interesting point—if Zuckerberg were to run for president, would he have access to this information? What else could he have access to? Given the amount of data Facebook has about everybody, I find that possibility worrisome. It seems obvious that a campaign strategist could segment individual states, regions and cities. They could target people based on likes and interests. They cou…

Stanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale [1]. It's worth watching even if it's 1 hour and 23 minutes.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7qT_38iRSc&t=633s

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I now have a phone with Nougat, according to the Xposed developers, Xposed doesn't yet work reliably with it. On Marshmallow it worked very well, Xprivacy would show pop-ups when an app tries to do something, you can either allow this, refuse this or allow/refuse for a period of time. Otherwise, Xprivacy's UI is a bit of a pain, but it's usable...

Do you remember what the performance impact of xprivacy was? I'm currently doing something similar with cyanogenmod's privacy guard + xposed app ops which allows statically revoking permissions, but Xprivacy seems to have a better little-snitch like ui

I never really compared it with and without Xprivacy.
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