What does Facebook do with all the money it earns via advertising? Google has to support the huge number of free services they offer, for example. Mapping the entire world doesn't come cheap.
Why are people so scared of their "personal" data (i.e. what colour t-shirts they like) being shared? It's like those tools who protest against CCTV being installed - if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have a problem with being incidentally caught on tape.
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Jun-28-2011 20:47
EgosXII
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Originally posted by Domesticated
Two questions.
What does Facebook do with all the money it earns via advertising? Google has to support the huge number of free services they offer, for example. Mapping the entire world doesn't come cheap.
Why are people so scared of their "personal" data (i.e. what colour t-shirts they like) being shared? It's like those tools who protest against CCTV being installed - if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have a problem with being incidentally caught on tape.
fear of the unknown... people are insanely paranoid; add to it a complete incomprehension of anything technological (even young people are mostly stupid about shit like this), and you get this idea that your being spied on... As if any company would give a shit about them
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Jun-28-2011 20:48
Domesticated
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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
DOMESTICATED IS A FASCIST!
GET HIM!
I broke into an old spy base today.
I bet you didn't even leave the house, you filthy layabout you.
Originally posted by EgosXII
As if any company would give a shit about them
Are you kidding? Adsense technology that profiles individuals to tailor advertisements toward them is immense, and its development is the future of paradigm monopolies.
Remember that scene in Minority Report (the movie) when he was walking through the shopping mall and 3D ads were saying his name and gibbering at him listlessly? Yeah, that.
The problem with this sort of encroachment is that it will make things all the much easier to form social notions based entirely off of ceaseless advertising, as if that weren't enough of an issue already. The fringe cost to humanity as we know it will be immense, though it is of course inevitable. You say "paranoia" as though it weren't being second-guessed every day; as machines begin to align themselves more and more with our social interactions, so will the standard by which we judge schizophrenia be permanently altered.
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Jun-28-2011 20:56
Halcyon+On+On
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Registered: Sep 2004
Location: midcoast
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Originally posted by Domesticated
I broke into an old spy base today.
I bet you didn't even leave the house, you filthy layabout you.
Oh, you took all those pictures today? They were pretty rad. There are several abandoned missle silos here in Colorado I've been meaning to visit. Though I'd need to get a decent camera first, and a whole bunch of gumption.
//I like how you took all the pictures today, then immediately raced home to post them on TA.
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Jun-28-2011 20:58
Tasty Onions
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Registered: May 2011
Location: Crazyland
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Originally posted by EgosXII
fear of the unknown... people are insanely paranoid; add to it a complete incomprehension of anything technological (even young people are mostly stupid about shit like this), and you get this idea that your being spied on... As if any company would give a shit about them
It's not necessarily the company you need to worry about, but anyone who can get their hands on the company's data, who might not be so harmless to you as the company's employees. Most Internet security is fucking pathetic, as the Lulzsec episode recently proved, and there are plenty of people who will use that fact for harassment, financial gain, and generally making people's existence miserable for profit or for the hell of it.
Jun-28-2011 21:29
nefardec
Tranceaddict in tranning
Registered: Oct 2004
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Are you kidding? Adsense technology that profiles individuals to tailor advertisements toward them is immense, and its development is the future of paradigm monopolies.
Remember that scene in Minority Report (the movie) when he was walking through the shopping mall and 3D ads were saying his name and gibbering at him listlessly? Yeah, that.
The problem with this sort of encroachment is that it will make things all the much easier to form social notions based entirely off of ceaseless advertising, as if that weren't enough of an issue already. The fringe cost to humanity as we know it will be immense, though it is of course inevitable. You say "paranoia" as though it weren't being second-guessed every day; as machines begin to align themselves more and more with our social interactions, so will the standard by which we judge schizophrenia be permanently altered.
