An amazing thing about both Facebook and Google is that employees at these two pillars of the surveillance economy see themselves as champions of privacy. And in a way, they are right—they guard user data as zealously as a dragon guards its gold. https://twitter.com/yonatanzunger/status/1022621096057556992 …
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These companies hire some of the brightest minds in the world. And bright minds excel at rationalizing. Just like any cryptographer can write a code they cannot break, every programmer can lay out a bulletproof ethical case to themselves why they should work their cushy tech job.
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Manipulation and surveillance are two different points. Which one are you emphasizing? Surveillance capabilities are mostly a byproduct of design choices (users want email, and they want it to work on any device). The manipulation argument is subtler, especially against google.
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