It just seems like the people at FB have watched Black Mirror and decided they want to do all the things they saw.
That "social credit" episode was really creepy.
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#32Regardless of who provides this, and even irrespective of marketing concerns, there most likely will be data leaks/theft. Imaging having audio+video recordings of what you see and what you say in the hands of the wrong people. And "the wrong people" could be a wide array of different parties, from banks to police to political enemies to nosy neighbors and beyond.
Granted, many of us already collect and give away significant amounts of very personal data, some of which regularly gets leaked or stolen; but first person video and audio recordings?... scary.
And then with Facebook... I trust Zuckerberg with my life data as much as I trust his choice in hairstylists.
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#33There is no way that this will ever be legal in the EU.
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#35When I read articles like this I experience a mini existential crisis that we could be heading to some very dark places technologically. I don't need to go into the reasons why it's bad. For anyone who's aware of the last 15 years of social media critique or novels like Brave New World, it's obvious that this would be a dystopia multiplier. Ad tech on steroids. If you think the manipulation is bad now just wait until…
In one generation in the US we went as a whole society from most private p2p conversations not being logged and monitored and recorded by the government, to most private p2p conversations not only being logged and monitored and recorded, but available to the state at any time without probable cause or a warrant (FISA Amendments Act). iMessage, WhatsApp, Gmail, Facebook Messenger, Instagram: all of these are stored on…
AFAIK the chat backup is optional. I've never stored a backup.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
In one generation in the US we went as a whole society from most private p2p conversations not being logged and monitored and recorded by the government, to most private p2p conversations not only being logged and monitored and recorded, but available to the state at any time without probable cause or a warrant (FISA Amendments Act). iMessage, WhatsApp, Gmail, Facebook Messenger, Instagram: all of these are stored on…
AFAIK the chat backup is optional. I've never stored a backup.
Everyone you chat with does (because it's on by default), making your choice irrelevant.
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#37Sometimes I dream of a Facebook machine; e.g. the eerily creepy recommender for your next best action, but than with an objective function not to optimise the recommenders revenue (by being as effective ad seller as possible) but rather changing the objective function to optimise for health, wellbeing and happiness. Now surely it is far from trivial to define these, but atleast you can make a start somewhere:
- You could factor in the cost for environment per each recommendation and have that drive down the score of a recommendation: I think the "fast-fashion" idiotic anti-environmental trends would die out fast than.
- You could factor in, based on some overarching theme of ethos, that each person needs to eat healthy and recommend the right healhty food at the right time; instead of recommending the next best McDonalds burger to an already obese person.
- Take into consideration, based on studies, what actual heatlhy behaviour looks like, and try to fit that to a person - with respect to their actual persona and state of health (which are obviously known already given that each bit of you is pretty much on the street already)
I could go on, but in truth, a personal recommender that would know me better than I even would, and would optimise towards happiness and greatness, instead of # shit sold like it currently is, would already be a tremendous improvement. Surely, this idea is also far from original, but I hope that we someday get to such a thing. Atleast a thing that stops recommending environmentally destructive behaviours like buying so much stuff I don't really need.
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#38And this is why you need ad blockers and privacy protection plugins for your web browser. If you can't stop Facebook snooping on you at least make it hard for them. As my grandfather taught me, "if you can't win then make it hard for the other guy to win."
I don't like this pattern in calls to action. The pattern starts with an implicit hopelessness of affecting any external change and results in all responsibility being assumed by the individual.
This is an antipattern of change. It does not need to be perpetuated because it reproduces the permanence of the constructs we want to dismantle. Even more importantly, these entities are fully aware of this and craftily guide the masses toward individual responsibility as a default, knowing that it won't affect real change. The antidote to this is critical collective action which realizes the impossibly of change as itself an impossible stance to take.
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#39I support Facebook AI. The actual news is that we are releasing an extensive egocentric dataset with associated tasks for the research community. Collecting such dataset in a private and responsible way is a significant challenge. Happy to answer any questions.
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/teaching-ai-to-perceive-the-wor...
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#40I hope it remembers why I deactivated my FB account.
So you are saying that you hope it remembers why you went to https://www.facebook.com/deactivate where you deactivated your account without deleting your profile?