31–36 of 36 posts
You can't fix something that is specifically designed to get the maximum information from people. However if by fix they mean make it even sneakier about how it gathers personal information then I guess fixed it is.
You can simply not participate. That's the quickest fix. FB would be out of business tomorrow morning if people realized what a thoroughly bad company this is.
Hmmm "One current employee asked that a WIRED reporter turn off his phone so the company would have a harder time tracking whether it had been near the phones of anyone from Facebook."
This is well known.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is well known.
How is this done? Does the Facebook mobile app record all location data? Or does it record all nearby bluetooth devices?
I'm super surprised that they haven't made a dating app out of this.
> nothing less than our democracy is at stake @dang, this is a brilliant piece of journalism. Any way to give it more traction on the HN home page?
It looks like someone flagged the story unfortunately. It dropped like a rock from the front page. It really is an excellently written piece
> nothing less than our democracy is at stake @dang, this is a brilliant piece of journalism. Any way to give it more traction on the HN home page?
It looks like someone flagged the story unfortunately. It dropped like a rock from the front page. It really is an excellently written piece
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like things went the wrong way with "Black Lives Matter". We were just on the crux of a "Police Accountability Matters" movement and then things went a different direction.
The same people that say "all lives matter" would be saying "You're undermining our cops therefore putting them in danger. You're literally getting cops killed." The reason why the "all lives matter" people exist isn't because they're honestly misinterpreting the "black lives matter" message. They're dishonestly misinterpreting it. If you worded it differently they would find a different way to dishonestly misinterpr…
I think there's a middle ground.