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A look inside the company and its astonishing reach into our daily lives through a series of studies conducted by Share Labs, first reported by the BBC but without linking directly to the material posted by Share Labs.
Share Lab is a research team based in Yugoslavia: "Where indie data punk, meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues"
For those of us born and raised before Facebook, life has many different aspects: work, family, hobbies. In each context we may behave differently and other people might have a different impression of our personality but Facebook, by mixing it all together, is causing a "context collapse", no longer partitioning our lives.
However, one of Zuckerberg's fears is "context restoration" whereas users become aware of the Panopticon and choose to "behave" in Facebook withholding essential data and thus ruining Facebook's algorithms. It may become a LinkedIn type of site, where everything posted is highly curated for professional purposes and the "social" migrates to other platforms, such as Instagram.
It is possible that in the near future Facebook and LinkedIn will be competing for the same market: professional or skilled traders and lose some of its potency. That is why Facebook is extending its reach to other websites, tracking both Facebook users and others to keep harvesting data about our daily activities and testing algorithms to influence every decision we make.
As Douglas Rushkoff puts it:
"Facebook will market you your future before you've even gotten there, they'll use predictive algorithms to figure out what's your likely future and then try to make that even more likely. They'll get better at programming you – they'll reduce your spontaneity. "
As we all know, your social media profile has become of interest to would-be employers, law-enforcement and of course, advertisers. Some have started to demand wages for using Facebook, as we are creating the "product" they sell.
Those afraid of Big Government should be very afraid of behemoths like Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple and others which are not hindered by the constitution or human rights. It appears that we can run but no hide.
(Score: 2) by Spamalope on Monday May 29 2017, @06:20PM (1 child)
It appears that we can run but no hide.
You can add lots of intentionally false information.
Weave it in with the true stuff.
Now that I think of it, I want a Windows domain system that does the following:
Spin up temporary template VMs, Vlan into a private network, destroy after each run
Load random users roaming profile with cookies and flash cookies
compile a visit list using trending data on search engines; links on 4chan/8chan/twitter/tumblr (pick randomized samples from key word searches in addition to embedded links)
Note the ones heavy with trackers (quant and the like in addition to the 'like' button trackers) and add them to a list for all VM runs to visit so they're maximally tracked, age out entries so the list stays fresh
'View' Youtube videos as well to make sure Alphabet maximally tracks (script making gmail profiles?)
And - then add searches and page visits to websites based on the most expensive ad keywords to advertise on. Make these fake people look really, really profitable. (things like Mesothelioma so the profile will seem like an asbestos lawsuit payday or the like) So the stalkers will sell the contact info expensively... and it will be wrong, making the stalkers service less trustworthy and valuable. (This is the are where you'd product taste to figure out the most useful info to spoof)
Use load feedback from the router to throttle so only 'excess' bandwidth is used
Add some VPNs between a few major companies shifting some of the traffic between them and you'd be hard to filter out. Make a 'spoofing at home' component so home systems can be used to spread some traffic around and it'll be hard to fingerprint and filter out the bad data.
Seems like a good kickstarter project!
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 29 2017, @06:33PM
Sounds like a feature implementation list for a open source project right there. Had similar ideas for some time now.