Facebook’s Jim Killock said “We need to think about the wider consequences…” They did, they have a patent on it: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/facebooks-new-patent-and-digital-redlining/407287/ … https://twitter.com/NetworkString/status/793744261518880769 …
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Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan
Sorry,
@JimKillock is@OpenRightsGroup, not Facebook. Got confused as it was hard to tell one from the other in the article.https://twitter.com/aral/status/793745659786567681 …Aral Balkan added,
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Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan
Which brings us to, why was
@OpenRightsGroup so busy praising Facebook they forgot to mention they have a patent for the exact same thing?https://twitter.com/aral/status/793749956880429056 …Aral Balkan added,
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Cool, thank you. Admiral wouldn’t have been able to do any of that if Facebook didn’t enable it.
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Yes and no. Yes, FB collect vast amounts of data and provide an API; no, they don't permit it to be used as Admiral wish.
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I know one company they’ll permit to do whatever they want with it though… Facebook, Inc.
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