Notices by Ecologia Digital (josemurilo@ecodigital.social)

"Long the bane of remote workers, #Zoom is equipped with numerous settings that even many of its longtime users may not know about. Take, for example, the "attendee #attention tracking" feature."
#privacy
#SurveillanceCapitalism
https://mashable.com/article/zoom-conference-call-work-from-home-privacy-concerns/

#Clearview #ai had its customer list stolen. Very trustworthy company to be working on #facialrecognition and #surveillance software. The company has a database of 3 billion photos scraped from the web, from sites like YouTube, Facebook, Venmo, LinkedIn.

https://www.cnet.com/news/clearview-ai-had-entire-client-list-stolen-in-data-breach/

"People don't actually want #television performance anymore... I know we all love TV, we all love watching our #Netflix instead of sleeping—which is really stupid, by the way.. Your own dreams are much more interesting than whatever they put on Netflix.. but that's another point.

We don't really want TV anymore, certainly not on #politics. What we want in a digital age is NON FICTION THRUTH.
#Democracy in the #digitalage is gonna have to be #participatory."
@Rushkoff

https://pca.st/episode/f4010c4b-adf6-49c9-a5b1-8413a54ecb4f?t=777.0

"Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before #surveillancecapitalism, there was #RSS: Really Simple #Syndication.
For those of you born into the siloed world of the centralised web, RSS is an ancient technology from Web 1.0" @aral
https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/

#Ostrom "She was a scholar who looked out the window, to adapt a phrase from her fellow #Nobel laureate Ronald #Coase, and she showed empirically and experimentally how institutions evolve to manage #commonpool resources “without any regulation by central authorities or privatization.” In other words, effective, context-specific governance of common-pool resources is not planned and imposed from above by wise rule-makers."
#commons
https://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2019/08/07/elinor-ostrom-tragedy-of-the-commons-birthday/

“The scariest part is there is no one villain.
You can scrutinize #SiliconValley and #Facebook all you want, but Facebook exists in a #stockmarket enabled society. . . . then there is this drive for growth-at-all-costs mentality, so you take the #growthatallcosts [mentality] in a #freemarket environment and you apply that with this ethos of #growfast and break things and this is where we end up — we are a broken #democraticstructure.”

https://www.salon.com/2019/07/24/the-great-hack-tells-the-chilling-saga-of-how-big-data-ensnared-us-all/

"What happens when #publicspace is saturated by #cameras using #facialrecognition and behavioral analysis? The demographic bias of current technologies means such systems are likely to exhibit substantial #discriminatory behaviors." — Kalev Leetaru

#IoT #SurveillanceCapitalism #surveillance

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/07/20/the-internet-of-things-is-creating-1984s-national-camera-surveillance-network/

"#BehaviouralAdvertising isn't paying publishers. It's not what brings you free stuff on the Internet. It's just how Google and the rest of #adtech sells your data. What value it does have - to #advertisers - can be delivered without #surveillance.
So let's."
@RobinBerjon@twitter.com
https://www.wsj.com/articles/behavioral-ad-targeting-not-paying-off-for-publishers-study-suggests-11559167195?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/UigdwKBghB

"The #Christchurch shooter also exploited an unwitting ally—technology companies who have proven themselves unable or unwilling to stop the spread of #hatespeech on their #platforms.

The result: a horrific event made all the more devastating by the perpetrator’s ability to turn some of America’s most #profitable companies into distributors of his ghoulish white nationalist recruiting video."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/new-zealand-mosque-shooting-facebook-twitter-youtube/

Roger McNamee, author of #Zucked, is joined by Lawrence #Lessig in #podcast.

"Facebook, Google and other internet platforms employ a business model– #SurveillanceCapitalism– that is undermining #publichealth, #democracy, #privacy, and #innovation in unprecedented ways.

The negative externalities of internet platforms are analogous to historical situations that required substantial regulatory intervention."

#Whistleblowers

https://pca.st/12O7

"#Zuckerberg’s essay is a power grab disguised as an act of contrition.

Facebook had $55 billion in #adrevenue last year, with 45% profit margin.. the most #profitable business venture in human history.

By narrowly construing #privacy to be exclusively about #endtoend #encryption, he avoids having to think about Facebook’s weaknesses and missteps. Privacy is not just about keeping secrets. It’s also about how flows of info shape us as individuals and as a society."

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613084/zuckerbergs-new-privacy-essay-shows-why-facebook-needs-to-be-broken-up/

#SurveillanceCapitalism "claims private #HumanExperience as a source of free raw material for subordination to the market dynamic where it is reborn as #behavioraldata–which is then combined with world historic computational capabilities that have never existed before.

This combination has the goal to produce predictions of human behavior, which are then sold to business customers who has an interest in betting in our future - #behavioralfuturemarkets."
@shoshanazuboff

https://pca.st/f482

#Nationalism [19th century] "is founded on treating #knowledge not as something that should be shared, as a basis for some kind of consensus through publishing, through contributing knowledge to the common good. Knowledge starts to be treated as some kind of #commodity…

A key issue in the 17th century #ScientificRevolution…was that #research findings had to be made #open to the community. The same thing with #accounting & #statistics. They’re there for the public."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/a-political-economist-on-the-end-of-the-age-of-objectivity

"#DeepLearning has authoritarian-right bias. It feeds on vast #datasets created by natural behavior, has a tendency to inherit endemic biases, & codify them in favor of conservative authoritarians who see the incumbent balance of power as natural & just.
A platform-scale social technology is a political ideology. If you want open, pluralist platforms, you're going to have to mix #pure technologies and arrange them in a conscious balance of power."
https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/politically-opinionated-platforms

https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/politically-opinionated-platforms

"Consider when someone sends a vial of saliva to #23andme. The person may not realize it will be resold to #bigpharma firms..

This is the same sort of #bargain Facebook and Google offer. You pay with your #personaldata, which is used to target you with ads."

https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-personal-data-collection/

An #AntiFacebook Manifesto, by an Early #Facebook Investor

"I’m reminded of #SteveJobs' #bicyclesforthemind—computers for human empowerment. Our jobs, what we think, we like, & we buy. Those are elements of what makes us individuals, are we going to delegate those things to a computer?" @Moonalice@twitter

That's no bike.

McNamee was an adviser to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and helped recruit Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, but now he’s speaking out against the social giant.

https://www.recode.net/podcasts/2019/2/11/18220779/zucked-book-roger-mcnamee-decode-kara-swisher-podcast-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-fb-sheryl-sandberg

"There are very few companies in the world with the #power to take a project like this and exert subtle #influence across so many government domains. But we should be talking about an economic development plan from the City of #Toronto, not #Alphabet Inc."

#Sidewalk #Google #Privacy

https://medium.com/@biancawylie/sidewalk-toronto-the-recklessness-of-novelty-6b6f6df7e70f

"research shows that hyper-involved #parenting is the route to kids’ success in today’s unequal world. Those who can afford to #helicopter are probably making things even more #unequal for the #nextgeneration. ..the prognosis for parenting doesn’t look good."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/helicopter-parents-economy.html

Update #copyright laws and open up real competition! Tech tians prevent their own disruption by a perverted interpretation of the #DMCA,
argues @doctorow

"experts warned US Congress that DMCA 1201 was way too broad and would be ripe for abuse, as software crept into more systems.

#Uber & #Lyft can use DMCA 1201 to stop you from figuring out how to use them to locate #coop drivers, and they can use the #CFAA to stop you from flipping your booking from Uber to MetaUber"

http://locusmag.com/2019/01/cory-doctorow-disruption-for-thee-but-not-for-me/

On the "deepening suspicion of many communities that the costs of urban prosperity outweigh the benefits. The #techjobs and the high wages aren’t worth having if they come with worsening congestion, more crowded development or soaring #housingcosts." https://t.co/AKORD1YRTp