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Internet memes proliferate online. They catch on and spread via social media because they’re funny or they hit a nerve. Often, cats are involved. In using images taken from creative works or private life, memes show how copyright law intersects with issues of internet use and privacy.
Former FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani argues it's time for Silicon Valley companies to formalize and test not just their products' security, but its "abusability."
The Setup
To my good friend, Steve Steveington. Thank you for your email advising me of my impending doom and destruction. I’m sorry that it’s taken me so long to reply. Work has been crazy.
On Twitter, your words are predictable using the words of your network.
By Chris Hoofnagle - University of California, Berkeley | They claim not to sell data, but Facebook and Google have paid developers with data. This selling of your personal data is central to platform economics. Could quality signals change the terms of the bargain?
Instagram has been earning money from businesses flooding its social network with spam notifications. Instagram hypocritically continues to sell ad space to services that charge clients for fake followers or that automatically follow/unfollow other people to get them to follow the client back. This is despite Instagram reiterating a ban on these businesses in November […]
In March, Google announced with much fanfare the launch of the Google News Initiative, a $300 million program aimed at “building a strong future for journalism,” as the company put it. That came on top of the previous Digital News Initiative, which was set up by Google in 2015 and included a $170 million innovation […]
Privacy and surveillance scholars increasingly worry that data collectors can use the information they gather about our behaviors, preferences, interests, incom
Why all this is confusing.
A nice history of the web.
Ad fraud, fake news, etc.
FFS FACEBOOK.
Voter suppression.
CW verbal abuse, threats.
How Russia did what it did in 2016.
BUT FACEBOOK AND ADVERTISERS CAN STILL REIDENTIFY YOU. FFS Facebook, ya liars.
Another angle on what's creepy and what isn't.
The videos by live streamer Patti Beers vary in length from seconds to hours.
Facebook has always sold data to advertisers, and it probably always will.