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This is bad news all around. It is likely a huge percentage of searches performed by people will not enrich lives but most people will use it to mine out insights that others don't wish to be publicized. Can you imagine people being rounded up in China over this and put into prisons over their "like".
This is bad news all around. It is likely a huge percentage of searches performed by people will not enrich lives but most people will use it to mine out insights that others don't wish to be publicized. Can you imagine people being rounded up in China over this and put into prisons over their "like".
You don't even have to imagine, it's already happened.
With great power comes great responsibility. Companies such as Facebook and the like undoubtedly draw great power from their "social graph"; however, human interactions are subtle, complex, multifaceted and often contradictory. Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph"; it will always lead to situations like that which are, at best, embarrassi…
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You don't even have to imagine, it's already happened.
Do you have a link with more information?
With great power comes great responsibility. Companies such as Facebook and the like undoubtedly draw great power from their "social graph"; however, human interactions are subtle, complex, multifaceted and often contradictory. Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph"; it will always lead to situations like that which are, at best, embarrassi…
Goodbye Facebook.
This is bad news all around. It is likely a huge percentage of searches performed by people will not enrich lives but most people will use it to mine out insights that others don't wish to be publicized. Can you imagine people being rounded up in China over this and put into prisons over their "like".
And if they DID, people there wouldn't be liking Falun Gong. It's a bogus example.
Complaining about News Feed and Graph Search is basically saying you're ok with "security through obscurity". If I understand correctly, all of this information is already available to those who want to dig deep enough.
This is funny, in Iran people don't quite understand what "interested in" means. In sign up process when they see "interested in" options, they think that means "are you interested in finding friends who are male?" (same for females). This is because:
1. People use VPN to access Facebook and Facebook can not localize/internationalize their experience.
2. Using translated Facebook sucks(at least translated in Farsi)
3. Concept of homosexual relationships is not known by many iranians because of lack of education.
So there is no wonder if people in Iran marking themself gay while they are not.
(with all respect to gay people)
Consider: “Family members of people who live in China and like Falun Gong”. And: ”When users recognize or fear that their privacy or confidentiality is compromised, true freedom of inquiry no longer exists.” - American Library Association, http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=interpretations&...
Where's the EFF Panopticlick for your FB likes? To tell you how well you stick out or blend in with the crowd? (though blending in with the crowd is just security through obscurity...) A couple days ago someone was asking for an automated FB deliker app/service, to automatically unlike everything you've like d on FB.