Facebook's present approach to privacy is to define it very narrowly, and then pose as its aggressive defender. It's a smart approach! It exploits the gap between privacy as a legal construct and our strong social norms (the thing I call ambient privacy) https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/1139561942723506176 …
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Facebook insists that things are public or private, while in the human world 99% of things are meant to be "kind of private"—naturally limited to their time and audience that is there. Subverting this social norm around ambient privacy was one reason Google glasses were so hated
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Anyway I just wrote a very good essay about this and it has a picture and a footnote. https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm …
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Also this thing I wrote in 2011. "We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate others for personal advantage - we call that person a sociopath" https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/ …pic.twitter.com/WnR63I5RRV
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