@aral To be fair, they did not use Facebook data, but applied machine-learning techniques to open-source satellite images.
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@andrewcb Oh, indeed. And they also purchase third-party datasets from brokers, etc. All data they have isn’t “volunteered” -
@aral If someone other than Facebook (say, IBM) had done the same thing, would it still be “surveillance capitalism”? -
@andrewcb Indeed. IBM is one of the originals: their mainframes played a supporting role in enabling the Holocaust.
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