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b-612  ·  3099 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We Lost

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/facebooks-new-patent-and-digital-redlining/407287/

Big brother has installed on the west, the good news it just wants money for now, and most people are ok with it. The bad news is that it's just one click away to turn ugly.

I was on reddit the other day talking about how whatsapp mines your message history and uses that context to display relevant ads on Facebook. The comment I got was: "so what, use adblock." It's like Snowden and company have been for nothing.





user-inactivated  ·  3097 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nasty stuff. I've only read the first few paragraphs of the article, but... Damn.

I wonder: what would you say to a person who declares "Let them watch me" because "I have nothing to hide"?