With this data, Amazon won't be able to just sell you clothes or judge you. It could analyze if you're depressed or pregnant and much else.pic.twitter.com/irc0tLVce9
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With this data, Amazon won't be able to just sell you clothes or judge you. It could analyze if you're depressed or pregnant and much else.pic.twitter.com/irc0tLVce9
The algorithms will judge you based on their training data, so you can also enjoy the tsk-tsk of fashion industry in a more robust fashion!
Machine learning algorithms can do so much with regular full length pictures of you. They can infer private things you did not disclose.
This kind of data can reveal a lot about your health status, too. Also. Sexual orientation? Big five personality? All your moods? Likely.
Amazon's Echo Look can likely predict clinical depression months *before* onset of clinical symptoms. Will it be used to avoid hiring you?
All this to sell you more clothes. We are selling out to surveillance capitalism that can quickly evolve into authoritarianism for so cheap.
zeynep tufekci Retweeted
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 …
zeynep tufekci added,
And even if Amazon promised the moon and back in privacy... Name the few big things that haven't gotten hacked. Yes, that few.
I helped invent the echo look. We had hundreds of conversations about security, privacy, and doing the right thing for the customer
Can you post to policies and safeguards that Amazon commits to? History is rife with the early inventors having little to no say in use.
I have a lot of friends in the technology world; many of them are great people and they are smart. History says their views won't matter.
So I'm very interested in institutional safeguards. Please do send anything you can share. Or email me: zeynep at http://technosociology.org .
I'm not a spokesperson for Amazon, just relating my experience. As far as policies, our privacy policy is available online.
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