Although I agree with the point of the article, I abhor the way the author makes his points.
> They use the vast amount of data they have on you, from your likes, things you read, things you type but don't post, to make highly accurate models about who you are -- even if you make it a point of keeping these things secret. It's a technique called linear regression which has been used in marketing for decades.
Oh man, not linear regression! They're really breaking out the high-powered statistical tools aren't they!
> Peter Thiel. He wrote a book attacking multi-culturalism at Stanford
Thiel has since retracted those remarks IIRC.
> From the Terms Of Service (not the Privacy Policy -- see what they did there?):
The following content clearly belongs in a TOS IMHO so implying something nefarious is just ridiculous.
> There's no need to talk hypothetically about government surveillance here. One of the first Facebook investors called Greylock has board connections to a CIA investment firm called In-Q-Tel. According to their website, it "identifies cutting-edge technologies to help the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community to further their missions".
Oh man! A company that invested in Facebook about a decade ago has a board member that is a board member of a company that has connections to the CIA! I'm pretty sure that you can say that about literally any large technology company that exists.
Now, I agree that Facebook is funneling data to the NSA and they are building models of your life, but the way that this author makes his points is frankly disgusting. Not to mention the rate of about two typos per paragraph that make the article even harder to read.
> They use the vast amount of data they have on you, from your likes, things you read, things you type but don't post, to make highly accurate models about who you are -- even if you make it a point of keeping these things secret. It's a technique called linear regression which has been used in marketing for decades.
Oh man, not linear regression! They're really breaking out the high-powered statistical tools aren't they!
> Peter Thiel. He wrote a book attacking multi-culturalism at Stanford
Thiel has since retracted those remarks IIRC.
> From the Terms Of Service (not the Privacy Policy -- see what they did there?):
The following content clearly belongs in a TOS IMHO so implying something nefarious is just ridiculous.
> There's no need to talk hypothetically about government surveillance here. One of the first Facebook investors called Greylock has board connections to a CIA investment firm called In-Q-Tel. According to their website, it "identifies cutting-edge technologies to help the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community to further their missions".
Oh man! A company that invested in Facebook about a decade ago has a board member that is a board member of a company that has connections to the CIA! I'm pretty sure that you can say that about literally any large technology company that exists.
Now, I agree that Facebook is funneling data to the NSA and they are building models of your life, but the way that this author makes his points is frankly disgusting. Not to mention the rate of about two typos per paragraph that make the article even harder to read.