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My theory on why these

moat — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:43:42 +0000

In reply to Wow, you seem to be much more

My theory on why these outrages have such a short half-life is that for many people the story goes like this:

"Go ahead and know everything about me as well or better than I do and see if it bores you much as it does me."

Wow, you seem to be much more

ocean-kat — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:33:08 +0000

In reply to This one deserves a Pulitzer

Wow, you seem to be much more optimistic about the future than I. I agree that many of the issues that consume our dialog today will disappear and be replaced with new issues in the future. I'm just more cynical about the kids of today being any more capable of dealing with those new problems any better than we were. Or caring about them any more than we did.

Facebook’s silver lining: Data furors fade

First comes the news of yet another improper leak of personal data. Then the outrage and investigations in Washington, the calls for a chastened CEO to testify in front of Congress, the cries for tough news laws and regulations to protect people’s privacy.

Then, typically, nothing much happens.

To see Facebook's, it asks me

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 08:55:00 +0000

In reply to Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you

To see Facebook's, it asks me if I want to start the archive, and I don't know if that means they haven't been storing certain info but this would start it, or it simply means the first copy of their long-running archive that I will now see.

This one deserves a Pulitzer

artappraiser — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:50:29 +0000

In reply to Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you

This one deserves a Pulitzer or something like that.

It's along the lines of the Washington Post motto of democracy dies in darkness sometimes a little sunshine on a problem is all that's needed to solve it. Meantime, users are now empowered to figure out ways to defeat agendas if they so desire, with: garbage in, garbage out. This is why Facebook stock is crashing, investors see this, that if we have the power to manipulate the data that's collected on us, it's not worth as much because it can be faked. It was valuable when it was like the results of a blind study. Now the guinea pigs are no longer blind. I.E., you can lie to a pollster.