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  • ’Facebook is taking everything’ : rising rents drive out Silicon Valley families
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/20/facebook-silicon-valley-housing-crisis-families-pushed-out

    Property companies advertising their proximity to Facebook’s campus are giving low-income residents a choice : pay a huge rent increase or move out Sandra Zamora is quitting Facebook. Not because of Russian election interference, misuse of personal data or any of the social network’s other scandals. For the 29-year-old, it’s personal : Facebook is her neighbor, and the company’s presence, she said, is wreaking havoc on her community. Zamora is part of a group of Menlo Park tenants in four (...)

    #Facebook #domination #urbanisme

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  • #facebucks: why social media needs the #blockchain
    https://hackernoon.com/facebucks-why-social-media-needs-the-blockchain-3a2e84d6498f?source=rss-

    Recent events have made it clear that social media has problems. Blockchain has powerful solutions for the big companies behind our favourite platforms — and it’s possible that a decentralised model is the only long-term way to create social media that is fit for purpose.Social media companies are already showing considerable interest in blockchain technology. It’s not always clear why — where the motives are apparent, they differ widely — but it makes intuitive sense. Social networks are designed to connect humans on a peer-to-peer level. Blockchain serves the same purpose. The match is a natural one — and if Telegram’s $1.7 billion token sale is anything to go by, there will be plenty more headlines to come on that theme.However, there’s a bigger picture and a bigger prize here. Blockchain could (...)

    #social-media-blockchain #social-media #facebook

  • ActivityPub Rocks!
    https://activitypub.rocks

    Don’t you miss the days when the web really was the world’s greatest decentralized network? Before everything got locked down into a handful of walled gardens? So do we.
    ActivityPub tutorial image

    Enter ActivityPub! ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format. ActivityPub is an official W3C recommended standard published by the W3C Social Web Working Group.

    It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and subscribing to content.

    Sounds exciting? Dive in!

    #Fediverses #réseaux_sociaux #réseaux_décentralisés #réinventer_l'Internet

    • Wikipedia
      https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

      ActivityPub est un standard ouvert pour réseaux sociaux décentralisés basé sur le format Activity Streams (en) 2.0. Il fournit une API allant d’un client vers un serveur pour la création, la mise à jour et la suppression de contenu, ainsi qu’une API entre serveurs pour la fédération (en) de notifications et de contenu. Cette norme est une évolution de Pump.io et est proposé comme remplacement d’OStatus par le groupe de travail sur les web social fédéré du W3C1, lancé en juillet 20142, pour le Fediverse.

  • Rise of the machines : has technology evolved beyond our control ?
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/15/rise-of-the-machines-has-technology-evolved-beyond-our-control-

    Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpredictable ways that even its creators don’t understand. As machines increasingly shape global events, how can we regain control ? The voice-activated gadget in the corner of your bedroom suddenly laughs maniacally, and sends a recording of your pillow talk to a colleague. The clip of Peppa Pig your toddler is watching on YouTube unexpectedly descends into bloodletting and death. The social network you use to keep in touch with old (...)

    #algorithme #domination #solutionnisme #cloud

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  • Facebook shared user details with firms after cutting developers’ access
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/facebook-shared-user-details-firms-developers-access-cut-off

    Facebook shared personal information from user profiles with companies after the date when executives have said the social network prevented third-party developers from gaining access to the data, the company confirmed on Friday. The records included information about the friends of Facebook users, including phone numbers and analysis of the degrees of separation between people, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Facebook acknowledged the information was given to a “small number” of (...)

    #Facebook #algorithme #données #BigData #publicité #marketing #profiling

    ##publicité
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  • Directed Acyclic Graphs — a #blockchain frenemy?
    https://hackernoon.com/directed-acyclic-graphs-a-blockchain-frenemy-dc24184d425?source=rss----3

    A somewhat new trend of solving cases which were considered to be intractable is now making the rounds.The general public, as well as the tech-savvy population, is searching for keywords like Bitcoin, Blockchain, crypto, and Distributed Ledger Technology to solve the cases mentioned above with the help of cryptographic principles and distributed computing.If one were to refer to a tech business, one would know which specific term to use — social network, an online marketplace and productivity app are all different and have different functions.However, this isn’t the case with crypto as the public generalizes all of it under ‘blockchain technology.’This phenomenon doesn’t do justice to the otherwise complicated and widespread industry. For anyone who wants to get into this domain, it’s (...)

    #cryptocurrency-frenemy #blockchain-frenemy #directed-acyclic-graph #acyclic-graphs

  • In what Social Media Network should you build your follower group?
    https://hackernoon.com/in-what-social-media-network-should-you-build-your-follower-group-49177b

    Social Media networks are very different when it comes to promoting yourself and building your follower base. Some of them offer shortcuts into building huge community, while on others you just can’t get pass the starting point.In the list below from easiest to most difficult one, I will explain the pros and cons of different social media networks and advice on which you should focus if you want to become online-famous.Note, that I don’t have experience with all social networks, and those that I’m not familiar with you will not find on this list.1. Telegram GroupAwesome media channel, where you can easily add followers without their consent or buy this service quite cheaply. The only downside is that they have limited the size of a group to 100k people. Note that Telegram Channel does not (...)

    #social-media #social-media-marketing #twitter #facebook #instagram

  • The bill to protect Elor Azaria - Haaretz Editorial

    Israel is set to consider a proposal banning any photographing of soldiers if carried out with the intention of ’undermining the morale of Israel’s soldiers and residents’

    Haaretz Editorial May 27, 2018

    https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/the-bill-to-protect-elor-azaria-1.6117404

    With Elor Azaria’s release from prison this month, Israel seems to have drawn the wrong conclusions from a serious incident. Today the Ministerial Committee for Legislation is set to consider a dangerous proposal banning any photographing, recording or filming of soldiers in the course of their duties, if it is carried out with the intention of “undermining the morale of Israel’s soldiers and residents.” The bill also bans the publication of photos or videos in the media or on social networks with similar intentions. Anyone who breaks the law is subject to five years in prison.
    The message is clear: B’Tselem, not Azaria, is the real criminal and Israeli democracy must protect itself from the human rights organization’s future crimes. The bill’s aim was made clearer in its explanatory notes and that is to silence criticism of the army, and in particular to prevent human rights organizations from documenting the Israeli army’s actions in the territories.
    It might be noted that any footage of soldiers on such missions can be presented as an attempt “to undermine the morale of Israel’s soldiers and residents.” The bill in fact seeks to almost entirely prevent the photographing of soldiers, even if it is to verify that they are upholding the law of war and the army’s orders. The immediate result of such a prohibition is serious harm to the possibility of protecting human rights and overseeing the army’s activity.
    A democratic country cannot base criminal offenses on such a vague foundation, certainly not when it comes to an offense relating to freedom of expression. The bill does serious harm to freedom of the press and the public’s right to know. The public has a right to know what the reality is and especially what the “people’s army” is doing in its name and on its behalf. That is why censorship can only be exercised in cases of serious danger to state security and not in an effort to head off criticism of the army.
    The message such legislation would convey, if passed, is that Israel has a great deal to hide regarding the IDF’s activities. Such a message, beyond its profound damage to Israel’s status as a democracy, also has harsh legal repercussions. The main protection against indicting Israeli soldiers and commanders in international tribunals for violating the law of war is the assumption that Israel investigates complaints against its soldiers itself, and deals with them fairly. The more Israel acts to cover up its soldiers’ actions, the more the opposite assumption is substantiated — laying the ground for the indictment of Israeli soldiers and commanders in such criminal proceedings.
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    As “sunlight is the best disinfectant,” so too camouflage and concealment are the most effective contaminators. A country and army that have nothing to hide, that act to seek out and punish those who violate their code of combat, don’t need legislation in this spirit and must oppose it.

  • Facebook accused of conducting mass surveillance through its apps
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/facebook-accused-of-conducting-mass-surveillance-through-its-apps

    Company gathered data from texts and photos of users and their friends, court case claims Facebook used its apps to gather information about users and their friends, including some who had not signed up to the social network, reading their text messages, tracking their locations and accessing photos on their phones, a court case in California alleges. The claims of what would amount to mass surveillance are part of a lawsuit brought against the company by the former startup Six4Three, (...)

    #Facebook #smartphone #écoutes #géolocalisation #procès #surveillance

  • Ever Wondered Which Industry #blockchain Will Transform Next? The Answer May Be Modeling
    https://hackernoon.com/ever-wondered-which-industry-blockchain-will-transform-next-the-answer-m

    This Paid Story is brought to you by CrystalsWhen faced with a powerful new technology, industry is forced to adapt. Radio forever changed marketing and the internet forever changed retail. Now, blockchain is forcing companies to reexamine why and how they do things. Everybody from big banks to social media companies are re-examining their tech and business models in an attempt to see how the revolutionary technology of blockchain can better help them get done whatever it is they need to get done.In CRYSTALS’ case, the answer is challenging the traditional top agencies for primacy in the modeling industry. And their answer may not be the first thing you would think of when you think of blockchain innovation: a social network.But not just any social network — a social network where models (...)

    #modeling-industry #ico #paid-story #blockchain-startup

  • Facebook lets advertisers target users based on sensitive interests
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/16/facebook-lets-advertisers-target-users-based-on-sensitive-interests

    Social network categorises users based on inferred interests such as Islam or homosexuality Facebook allows advertisers to target users it thinks are interested in subjects such as homosexuality, Islam or liberalism, despite religion, sexuality and political beliefs explicitly being marked out as sensitive information under new data protection laws. The social network gathers information about users based on their actions on Facebook and on the wider web, and uses that data to predict on (...)

    #Facebook #algorithme #données #BigData #publicité #marketing #profiling

    ##publicité

  • Facebook hit with class action lawsuit over collection of texts and call logs
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/11/facebook-class-action-lawsuit-collection-texts-call-logs

    Plaintiffs claim social network’s ‘scraping’ of information including call recipients and duration violates privacy and competition law

    Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit over the revelations that it logged text messages and phone calls via its smartphone apps. In the lawsuit filed in Facebook’s home of the northern district of California, the primary plaintiff, John Condelles III, states that the social network’s actions “presents several wrongs, including a consumer bait-and-switch, an (...)

    #Facebook #algorithme #surveillance #jeunesse #profiling #Android #BigData #données

  • Firefox Multi-Account Containers - Modules pour Firefox
    https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers

    About This Extension
    The Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension lets you carve out a separate box for each of your online lives – no more opening a different browser just to check your work email! Here is a quick video showing you how it works.
    Under the hood, it separates website storage into tab-specific Containers. Cookies downloaded by one Container are not available to other Containers. With the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension, you can...
    Sign in to two different accounts on the same site (for example, you could sign in to work email and home email in two different Container tabs.
    Keep different kinds of browsing far away from each other (for example, you might use one Container tab for managing your Checking Account and a different Container tab for searching for new songs by your favorite band)
    Avoid leaving social-network footprints all over the web (for example, you could use a Container tab for signing in to a social network, and use a different tab for visiting online news sites, keeping your social identity separate from tracking scripts on news sites)

    Et pour un container spécialisé pour Facebook (et automatiquement utilisé), voir https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/facebook-container

    #firefox #extension #session #cookie #outil #web_dev #vie_privée

    • @rastapopoulos

      Firefox Multi-Account Containers was first introduced as “Containers” available only in Firefox Nightly. It went on to be a Test Pilot Experiment, where we improved the user experience and added new features. Now it exists here as an extension that can be installed by all Firefox users.

      Although you can still use the feature built into Firefox Nightly, we recommend using this extension as it has a richer user experience.

      En résumé, ça semble juste être une surcouche à l’API qu’utilise #conex par exemple.

  • Facebook fires engineer accused of stalking, possibly by abusing data access
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/02/facebook-engineer-fired-alleged-stalker-tinder

    Employee allegedly called himself ‘professional stalker’ on Tinder as site seeks to launch dating app and faces privacy scandal Facebook has fired a security engineer after he was accused of stalking women online possibly by abusing his “privileged access” to data, raising renewed concerns about users’ privacy at the social network. The controversy, which came to light after the employee allegedly called himself a “professional stalker” in a message to a woman he met on Tinder, is particularly (...)

    #Facebook #harcèlement #BigData

  • Can Instagram keep its nose clean ?
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/28/instagram-at-the-crossroads-profits-facebook-data-scandal-politics-infl

    The photo-sharing app has avoided the scandal that has engulfed its owner, Facebook. But can it stay unscathed ? It has been a rough few weeks for Facebook since the Observer reported the Cambridge Analytica data breach. The scandal revealed how the political consulting firm might have raked up the personal information of at least 87 million Facebook users in order to influence them with tailored political ads, sent the social network’s stocks into a tailspin, triggered the #DeleteFacebook (...)

    #Facebook #Instagram #manipulation #domination #bénéfices #profiling

    • It is worth noting, too, that many people do not know that Instagram belongs to Facebook: according to a recent DuckDuckGo survey, 56.9% of Americans are unaware of the connection. Not that Facebook or Instagram were ever keen on emphasising that connection in their marketing material – a stance that, in retrospect, has paid off.

      [...]

      In the wake of the scandal, Facebook has hastened to make sure that Instagram’s data privacy practices were improved. In early April, Instagram suddenly shut down access to its application programming interface (API), disrupting several third-party apps relying on it to glean user analytics. Days later, Instagram announced it was creating a tool that would enable users to download all the data they have shared on the platform – a move that brought it in line with Facebook (which made data portability possible in 2010) and with the EU’s soon-to-be-implemented General Data Protection Regulation.

      #GDPR

  • Ad Scammers Need Suckers, and Facebook Helps Find Them - Bloomberg
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them

    They’d come to mingle with thousands of affiliate marketers—middlemen who buy online ad space in bulk, run their campaigns, and earn commissions for each sale they generate. Affiliates promote some legitimate businesses, such as Amazon.com Inc. and EBay Inc., but they’re also behind many of the shady and misleading ads that pollute Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the rest of the internet.
    Robert Gryn says users of his tracking software place about $400 million worth of ads a year on Facebook.
    Photographer: Angie Smith for Bloomberg Businessweek

    The top affiliates—virtually all of them young men—assemble a few times a year to learn the latest schemes and trade tips about gaming the rules set by social networks and search platforms. They think of themselves as kin to the surfers-slash-bank-robbers of the 1991 movie Point Break, just more materialistic, jetting from nightclub to Lamborghini race while staying a step ahead of the authorities. One San Diego crew took in $179 million before getting busted last year by the Federal Trade Commission for violating three laws governing online conduct.

    It was hard to believe that Facebook would cozy up to disreputable advertisers in mid-2017 as it was under intense scrutiny from lawmakers and the media over revelations that Russian trolls had used the platform to influence the 2016 presidential election. Officially, the Berlin conference was for aboveboard marketing, but the attendees I spoke to dropped that pretense after the mildest questioning. Some even walked around wearing hats that said “farmin’,” promoting a service that sells fake Facebook accounts.

    Granted anonymity, affiliates were happy to detail their tricks. They told me that Facebook had revolutionized scamming. The company built tools with its trove of user data that made it the go-to platform for big brands. Affiliates hijacked them. Facebook’s targeting algorithm is so powerful, they said, they don’t need to identify suckers themselves—Facebook does it automatically. And they boasted that Russia’s dezinformatsiya agents were using tactics their community had pioneered.

    Tiens, un exemple encore de pratiques qui commencent avec le commerce et migrent vers la surveillance politique.

    The basic process isn’t complicated. For example: A maker of bogus diet pills wants to sell them for $100 a month and doesn’t care how it’s done. The pill vendor approaches a broker, called an affiliate network, and offers to pay a $60 commission per sign-up. The network spreads the word to affiliates, who design ads and pay to place them on Facebook and other places in hopes of earning the commissions. The affiliate takes a risk, paying to run ads without knowing if they’ll work, but if even a small percentage of the people who see them become buyers, the profits can be huge.

    Affiliates once had to guess what kind of person might fall for their unsophisticated cons, targeting ads by age, geography, or interests. Now Facebook does that work for them. The social network tracks who clicks on the ad and who buys the pills, then starts targeting others whom its algorithm thinks are likely to buy. Affiliates describe watching their ad campaigns lose money for a few days as Facebook gathers data through trial and error, then seeing the sales take off exponentially. “They go out and find the morons for me,” I was told by an affiliate who sells deceptively priced skin-care creams with fake endorsements from Chelsea Clinton.

    Gryn found the affiliates at a moment when they were discovering social media. They’d begun applying tricks on Facebook that had been invented by email spammers, who’d in turn borrowed the tactics of fax spammers in the 1980s and ’90s. New forms of media have always been hijacked by misleading advertising: 19th century American newspapers were funded in part by dishonest patent medicine ads. Within days of Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration, the makers of Bellingham’s Onguent were placing ads claiming the president had used their product to grow his trendy whiskers.

    #Facebook #Publicité #Arnaques

  • How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet | Zeke Faux, Bloomberg, 27/03/2018
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them

    It was a Davos for digital hucksters. One day last June, scammers from around the world gathered for a conference at a renovated 19th century train station in Berlin. All the most popular hustles were there: miracle diet pills, instant muscle builders, brain boosters, male enhancers. The “You Won an iPhone” companies had display booths, and the “Your Computer May Be Infected” folks sent salesmen. Russia was represented by the promoters of a black-mask face peel, and Canada made a showing with bot-infested dating sites.

    They’d come to mingle with thousands of affiliate marketers—middlemen who buy online ad space in bulk, run their campaigns, and earn commissions for each sale they generate. Affiliates promote some legitimate businesses, such as Amazon.com Inc. and EBay Inc., but they’re also behind many of the shady and misleading ads that pollute Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the rest of the internet.

    The top affiliates—virtually all of them young men—assemble a few times a year to learn the latest schemes and trade tips about gaming the rules set by social networks and search platforms. They think of themselves as kin to the surfers-slash-bank-robbers of the 1991 movie Point Break, just more materialistic, jetting from nightclub to Lamborghini race while staying a step ahead of the authorities. One San Diego crew took in $179 million before getting busted last year by the Federal Trade Commission for violating three laws governing online conduct.

    #Facebook #publicité

  • A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes | TechCrunch
    https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/17/facebook-gdpr-changes

    Facebook is about to start pushing European users to speed through giving consent for its new GDPR privacy law compliance changes. It will ask people to review how Facebook applies data from the web to target them with ads, and surface the sensitive profile info they share. Facebook will also allow European and Canadian users to turn on facial recognition after six years of the feature being blocked there. But with a design that encourages rapidly hitting the “Agree” button, a lack of granular controls, a laughably cheatable parental consent request for teens and an aesthetic overhaul of Download Your Information that doesn’t make it any easier to switch social networks, Facebook shows it’s still hungry for your data.

    The new privacy change and terms of service consent flow will appear starting this week to European users, though they’ll be able to dismiss it for now — although the May 25th GDPR compliance deadline Facebook vowed to uphold in Europe is looming. Meanwhile, Facebook says it will roll out the changes and consent flow globally over the coming weeks and months with some slight regional differences. And finally, all teens worldwide that share sensitive info will have to go through the weak new parental consent flow.

    First up is control of your sensitive profile information, specifically your sexual preference, religious views and political views. As you’ll see at each step, you can hit the pretty blue “Accept And Continue” button regardless of whether you’ve scrolled through the information. If you hit the ugly grey “Manage Data Setting” button, you have to go through an interstitial where Facebook makes its argument trying to deter you from removing the info before letting you make and save your choice. It feels obviously designed to get users to breeze through it by offering no resistance to continue, but friction if you want to make changes.

    Overall, it seems like Facebook is complying with the letter of GDPR law, but with questionable spirit. Sure, privacy is boring to a lot of people. Too little info and they feel confused and scared. Too many choices and screens and they feel overwhelmed and annoyed. Facebook struck the right balance in some places here. But the subtly pushy designs seem intended to steer people away from changing their defaults in ways that could hamper Facebook’s mission and business.

    Making the choices equal in visible weight, rather than burying the ways to make changes in grayed-out buttons and tiny links, would have been more fair. And it would have shown that Facebook has faith in the value it provides, such that users would stick around and leave features enabled if they truly wanted to.

    When questioned about this, Sherman pointed the finger at other tech companies, saying he thought Facebook was more upfront with users. Asked to clarify if he thought Facebook’s approach was “better,” he said “I think that’s right.” But Facebook isn’t being judged by the industry standard, because it’s not a standard company. It’s built its purpose and its business on top of our private data, and touted itself as a boon to the world. But when asked to clear a higher bar for privacy, Facebook delved into design tricks to keep from losing our data.

    #Facebook #RGPD #Design

  • Facebook must face class action over facial recognition : U.S. judge
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-classaction/facebook-must-face-class-action-over-facial-recognition-u-s-judge-idUSKBN1H

    A U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday that Facebook Inc must face a class action lawsuit alleging that the social network unlawfully used a facial recognition process on photos without user permission. The ruling adds to the privacy woes that have been mounting against Facebook for weeks, since it was disclosed that the personal information of millions of users was harvested by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. U.S. District Judge James Donato ruled in San Francisco federal (...)

    #Facebook #biométrie #procès #facial

  • What does #privacy mean on a public blockchain?
    https://hackernoon.com/what-does-privacy-mean-on-a-public-blockchain-1243776df22f?source=rss---

    Strict new laws have come into effect for organisations dealing with personal data. What does that mean for businesses that store information on transparent, open and permanent ledgers?News of Cambridge Analytica’s misappropriation of data from some 87 million Facebook users has brought the issue of data protection squarely back into the spotlight. For years, consumers have effectively traded personal data for online services: data is considered the ‘oil’ of the internet, and the users of social networks, e-commerce platforms and almost every other free service have upheld this tacit bargain.In the last few weeks, we have seen where this leads — where, in fact, it was always and inevitably going to lead. It has become abundantly clear what the price of our personal data might be: freedom and (...)

    #encryption #data-protection #gdpr #blockchain-technology

  • Facebook Uses Artificial Intelligence to Predict Your Future Actions for Advertisers, Says Confidential Document
    https://theintercept.com/2018/04/13/facebook-advertising-data-artificial-intelligence-ai

    The recent document, described as “confidential,” outlines a new advertising service that expands how the social network sells corporations’ access to its users and their lives: Instead of merely offering advertisers the ability to target people based on demographics and consumer preferences, Facebook instead offers the ability to target them based on how they will behave, what they will buy, and what they will think. These capabilities are the fruits of a self-improving, artificial intelligence-powered prediction engine, first unveiled by Facebook in 2016 and dubbed “FBLearner Flow.”

    One slide in the document touts #Facebook’s ability to “predict future behavior,” allowing companies to target people on the basis of decisions they haven’t even made yet. This would, potentially, give third parties the opportunity to alter a consumer’s anticipated course. Here, Facebook explains how it can comb through its entire user base of over 2 billion individuals and produce millions of people who are “at risk” of jumping ship from one brand to a competitor. These individuals could then be targeted aggressively with advertising that could pre-empt and change their decision entirely — something Facebook calls “improved marketing efficiency.” This isn’t Facebook showing you Chevy ads because you’ve been reading about Ford all week — old hat in the online marketing world — rather Facebook using facts of your life to predict that in the near future, you’re going to get sick of your car. Facebook’s name for this service: “loyalty prediction.”

    #GAFA

  • Let’s Compete with #facebook
    https://hackernoon.com/lets-compete-with-facebook-a0dd5ff0b91?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

    I am sick of reading about people who want to regulate Facebook. You didn’t come up with the idea. You didn’t build the #business. Now that it’s here, who the heck do you think you are telling them how to run it?It’s not that I’m happy with Facebook. Far from it. But to me, the best way to fix it would be to come up with something better. I figure that if we really do come up with a much better way of running a social network, then some entrepreneur will be able to make a success out of our idea.I’ll start with my pet peeve about Facebook.The Stupid AlgorithmMy problem with the infamous algorithm that governs the news feed is not that it’s mysterious or that it’s malicious. My problem is that it’s just unforgivably stupid.— It shares jokes from friends who don’t have my sense of humor.— It shares (...)

    #economics #social-media #activism

  • Why Zuckerberg Is Winning the Facebook Hearings.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-11/zuckerberg-testimony-why-facebook-is-winning-so-far

    The best news for Facebook Inc. the company was that Zuckerberg ably deflected any challenges to the beating heart of its economic model: its hungry data collection and the fine-tuned targeted advertising based on that data. Zuckerberg’s success is a win for anyone primarily concerned with the company’s market value. But it’s a loss for the rest of us.


    Facebook will keep failing users’ trust as long as its business is based on unrestrained hoovering of as much user data as possible, and crafting ever-more innovative ways for advertisers to harness that information for commercial goals. It’s an arrangement to which Facebook’s users agree and can sidestep, technically, but it is hardly informed consent or a real option to avoid.

    This inherent conflict was on display during two of Zuckerberg’s exchanges on Tuesday. The first was with Senator Roy Blunt, the Republican from Missouri. He asked Zuckerberg a series of questions about what information the company can collect on its 2 billion users and use for advertising, including whether the social network can pinpoint that a person who posts on Facebook from his work computer in the morning is the same person who uploads a photo to his Facebook smartphone app at night.

    Mark Zuckerberg Testimony: Senators Question Facebook’s Commitment to Privacy.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/us/politics/mark-zuckerberg-testimony.html

  • 4,000 photos, 4 social networks, 1 family: #Romanovs100 kicks off with first stories — RT World News
    https://www.rt.com/news/423510-romanovs100-launches-for-100-days
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wx99EzX0wc

    Thousands of rare photos from the Romanovs’ private archives are hitting the web, starting April 8, in a hundred-day-long project dedicated to the lives of Russia’s last reigning royal family.
    Nicholas II was a real photo buff and his wife and five children followed suit: they used different cameras, including the legendary Kodak Brownie, to take photos of their daily lives. #Romanovs100 will publish these images via four major social media accounts: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram.

    The various platforms all have their unique storyline and the photos will not be cross-posted, but the team behind #Romanovs100 promises that it won’t be necessary to follow all platform accounts to stay in the loop: choosing one or a few would be enough. The original content was provided by Russia’s State Archive.

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    YouTube publishes mini-videos based on the Romanovs’ photo collection, featuring historic aspects of the era in which the last Tsar’s family lived, as well as little-known facts behind the rarely seen photos. Follow HERE.

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