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zeynep tufekci Retweeted New York Times Opinion
Yep. How are people supposed to even know that an app a random Facebook friend downloaded could siphon of all *your* data, let alone find the obscure option to turn it off or realize Facebook relinquished control.https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/975856888163250178?s=21 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Dustin Volz
Aaand Senator
@RonWyden has questions for Facebook. Most of its executives haven’t done a real interview in ages, let alone answer deep questions. https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/975777204348047361 ….zeynep tufekci added,
Dustin VolzVerified account @dnvolzNEW:@RonWyden sends letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica reports asking wide range of questions. Includes request for copy of every Facebook privacy assessment written since FTC's 2011 consent decree pic.twitter.com/cKTEOHUaH6Show this thread5 replies 78 retweets 221 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Women+ in ML/DS
The issues are structural. The issues are structural.https://twitter.com/wimlds/status/975961681267277824 …
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Women+ in ML/DS @wimldsAnother great TED talk by@zeynep about how#MachineLearning may be used in unethical ways when applied to your Facebook/Google/Amazon data. Very relevant to the#CambridgeAnalytica story. https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads …5 replies 71 retweets 235 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Stratos Safioleas
Yep. Facebook non-users get profiled, too. This is our online infrastructure: dossiers are accumulated whatever you do.https://twitter.com/stratosathens/status/976040699647922178 …
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Stratos Safioleas @stratosathensDay of reckoning for@facebook is here: "Facebook even creates “shadow profiles” of nonusers. That is, even if you are not on Facebook, the company may well have compiled a profile of you!" Essential read by@zeynep https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/facebook-cambridge-analytica.html … pic.twitter.com/idTjBIuz8D12 replies 226 retweets 299 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jay Rosen
We are neither properly informed, nor consenting.https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/976118695721340929 …
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Jay RosenVerified account @jayrosen_nyu"This wasn’t informed consent. This was the exploitation of user data and user trust." —@zeynep. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/facebook-cambridge-analytica.html … Exactly. "Uninformed consent" is how Facebook lost the plot and yet built the machine that it is now. Undoing that is a long hard road, and may be impossible.4 replies 68 retweets 195 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Paul Jones
The role of Amazon Turk—global low-pay labor marker—isn’t a minor part of this story.https://twitter.com/smalljones/status/976111106136727553 …
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The most annoying, misguided response: “wait, is anyone really surprised?” Yes, you’re the genius, we’re all idiots. You’re also the person who’d ask “wait, you’re surprised there’s lead in paint.”
Cynicism or smugness—or both, who knows—but no truer enemy to positive change.12 replies 148 retweets 588 likesShow this thread -
There is no way for an ordinary person to keep track of APIs, latest papers in computational inference, ML, secondary data markets, dark UX, tracking pixels, database mergers and all the rest. Even I can’t find all the privacy options, and I’m technical and this is my research!
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Replying to @zeynep
I saw an ML paper yesterday which cited two papers from 2018 in related work
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