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Re: Cambridge Analytica + (good reading)
To return to the thread’s topic: this is all the data Facebook and Google have on us.
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and the invasions keep on coming:
As Facebook Struggles With Privacy, Adobe Announces It’s Helping Companies Track People Across Devices
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Ad-blockers will never not be important as long as we have to follow articles like most of these to read about these things. And I don’t know if browser readers function as ad-blockers too, but I sure love them for stripping out all the visual junk.
I think the article by Doc Searles in my head post is the most poignant; showing how all the news media sites track you just as much as a tech giant does. The Times website, for example, is ridiculous. Forbes and Rolling Stone are a couple others that come to mind thare especially bad too. But they all are. Every single one.
And, to be honest, if you’re using Google Analytics, or even PiWikii (I think it’s called something else now), or put socmed buttons in your site, etc, then you track people too.
The final phase of my self audit is to completely get off Google, as much as I possibly can, which is far worse than Facebook as a tracking company. No Drive, no GA, no gmail, no search, no G+, no YT, etc.
For me the two hard ones to abandon entirely will be Street View and Translate. There doesn’t seem to be ANY competition there.
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I didn’t see the memo about the <span class="caps"> style change.
(Hashtag FOMO etc.)
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On a related note, here is a (to my eyes) a decent introduction on the GDPR – EU’s General Data Protection Regulations coming into force soon.
Me wishes we had something similar here – will take a long time I fear; on the flip side, those EU regulations have de facto global reach, which in this case is probably a good thing.
Where is that emoji for a solar powered submarine when you need it ?
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phiw13 wrote #310459:
…a decent introduction on the GDPR – EU’s General Data Protection Regulations coming into force soon.
Excellent share, phi! Bowles is becoming a decent writer. ;)
Particularly interesting is the para on right to erasure (a deep topic on its own), and the last para, which actually has me excited about seeing how the web explodes.
Meanwhile, the not so wonderful CLOUD Act was signed into effect by tRump a few days ago. Here’s a quick summary of of the civil abuses that will make easy.
What this all adds up to, in my book, is get out of centralized platforms as fast as you can. Export your data archives if you want, but make sure to delete data regardless, then delete those accounts.
This is what I’ve been working on for the last months, and now I’m going to double-time it with what remains. When the shit hits the fan, I want as little of me tabulated as possible. It has nothing to do with having anything to hide, but just not being anywhere a gov wants to track. Period.
Right to erasure, indeed.
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gaekwad wrote #310452:
I didn’t see the memo about the
<span class="caps">style change.(Hashtag FOMO etc.)
If I remember correctly, the early versions of txp had inline styling regarding this. Later ones, replaced it with the class.
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phiw13 wrote #310459:
On a related note, here is a (to my eyes) a decent introduction on the GDPR – EU’s General Data Protection Regulations coming into force soon.
I’m afraid that it is much darker than that! Check out this and this campaigns which actually present the other side of the coin; the side which will affect most of us.
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colak wrote #310463:
I’m afraid that it is much darker than that! Check out this and this campaigns which actually present the other side of the coin; the side which will affect most of us.
I don’t know, Colak. Those links you share each sound like the panicked cries of people with particular agendas.
This from the first article just makes my eyes roll:
If the new EU copyright proposal is passed, we will be living in a new era of censorship. YouTube, Facebook and other file-sharing platforms would be forced to implement new algorithms to check whether the content you upload has any copyrighted elements. Bots would judge what you can share – and what can be shared with you. They would filter out and ban anything that might cause a problem. Any problem. It’s about our freedom to speak. It’s about censorship.
The person clearly doesn’t see the big picture (or does and is trying to manipulate it, more likely). Anyone arguing on behalf of centralized socmed platforms (and make no mistake, he is) is part of the problem, IMO. They need to become unpopular and fall. And I don’t trust anyone who shouts about “freedom of speech”. That’s such a tired chestnut that only people who want to abuse the right still whine about it — racists, misogynists, perverts, whoever whatever.
The second link is more interesting only by the fact it concerns open software. But is every open software good? Is every developer good? No. I’m sorry to say, even in open source there are a lot of snakes. I’m not saying the laws are entirely good — I’m not qualified say, and I think Bowles takes a good stance on that too — but none of this is cut-n-dried. Will these laws be perfect. No. Does anyone have all this shit figured? Haaaaailll no.
But I can say one thing with almost certainty by looking at history. Something needs to change, because most people are getting screwed while big centralized tech, ad companies, and corrupt governments profit. I’m much more concerned about the CLOUD Act than I am about the new EU laws for data privacy. The former is against citizens “rights”, as it were, while the latter is for it.
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Destry wrote #310466:
I don’t know, Colak. Those links you share each sound like the panicked cries of people with particular agendas.
Hi Destry,
I am afraid that I am speaking because of my experience with DMCA… A few years ago a video we uploaded received a DMCA notice for no reason except that it shared the same title as a blockbuster. The situation was thankfully fairly quickly resolved as our case went viral… Check out the literature we collected here.
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colak wrote #310467:
Check out the literature we collected here.
Sorry to hear that, and thankful you got cleared.
Chalk it up to the ‘not perfect’ situation I mentioned. There will always be abrasions with change, sometimes even casualties. These things always adjust as they go, and I think your case shows that while the laws are not always convenient or pleasant, neither are they a complete witch hunt, or may be you wouldn’t have been cleared.
If the casualties are few on the part of citizens, and dealt with fairly, while being severe on the part of ad-tech devils, well… Sacrifices have to be made. ;)
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I’m not making light of your situation, btw. Hope that was clear. I’m just saying, the scale of this beast is huge, a safety net is not guaranteed. Sometimes a limb is lost to beat the flesh-eating virus.
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Destry wrote #310461:
get out of centralized platforms as fast as you can. Export your data archives if you want, but make sure to delete data regardless, then delete those accounts.
This is what I’ve been working on for the last months, and now I’m going to double-time it with what remains. When the shit hits the fan, I want as little of me tabulated as possible. It has nothing to do with having anything to hide, but just not being anywhere a gov wants to track. Period.
This calls for a Web post which explains how to export/delete user data and then to delete accounts. which platforms allow for data export and deletion?
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