Amazon's Echo Look can likely predict clinical depression months *before* onset of clinical symptoms. Will it be used to avoid hiring you?
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All this to sell you more clothes. We are selling out to surveillance capitalism that can quickly evolve into authoritarianism for so cheap.
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So, they also didn't answer if they will sell the data to third parties, let alone what analyses they will do. https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/857260082450636800 …
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And even if Amazon promised the moon and back in privacy... Name the few big things that haven't gotten hacked. Yes, that few.
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Not just a privacy disaster; people don't understand what algorithms can infer from pictures. You are disclosing a lot of health info, too.
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We shouldn't do this. There needs to be a movement on implications of all this, clear warning to users, regulations on data use.
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Sleepwalking into surveillance capitalism, which is evolving into data and computation driven authoritarianism, one cool service at a time.
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The working title of my next book is "Algorithms: Letting an Alien Intelligence Watch, Judge, and Nudge Us." Judge part is arriving so fast.
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Not even getting into obvious biases that Echo Look will spit back at you from its training data. That will be the tip of the iceberg.
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Baffling how rapidly we are rushing into über-surveillance and hidden, poorly-understood machine-enabled manipulation as the business model.
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Meanwhile, we don't feed starving children for lack of 20 Juiceros, and work with Saudis to bomb and blockade them.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/857198900465283073 …
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What would it take to get Silicon Valleyl to fund World Food Program—just 20 Juiceros? I'd pledge to shut up on Twitter for rest of year?
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Advertisers openly say it's best to sell make-up to women when they feel "fat, lonely and depressed." With this data, won't have to guess.
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