Don’t forget that your phone number is correlated with your location data – as are those who are in discernable geotempopral patterns you share..
Social graphs are constantly updated and never deleted with all the identities you have ever communicated with (and their geotempopral patterns)..
Farcebook and the rest of the FAANG do business with sleazy data slurpers to match these patterns to any and all data they can get from the real world..
These profiles are then used to create shadow profiles on people who aren’t even on their platforms..
Then companies, politicians and worse can buy real time information about how their advertising, propaganda, etc affect those around you in real life and real time..
These behavior analytics – including the shadow profiles of those not on the platform – can be used by others to decide on things that impact your real life – without your knowledge or consent..
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” – Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick wasn’t so much a science fiction writer as a future realism writer..
There’s currently a bill in California that would allow drivers two opportunities to redo their official license photo. This could triple the number of photos of those drivers in their database. If California passes this bill, other states are sure to follow. States share and sell this information to just about anyone who’ll pay for it. Three slightly different photos of you taken in the same controlled setting would be very helpful to a corporation or government who wants to profile you.
Surveillance capitalists control the science and the scientists, the secrets and the truth.“These contests of the 21st century demand a framework of epistemic rights enshrined in law and subject to democratic governance. Such rights would interrupt data supply chains by safeguarding the boundaries of human experience before they come under assault from the forces of datafication. The choice to turn any aspect of one’s life into data must belong to individuals by virtue of their rights in a democratic society. This means, for example, that companies cannot claim the right to your face, or use your face as free raw material for analysis, or own and sell any computational products that derive from your face. The conversation on epistemic rights has already begun, reflected in a pathbreaking report from Amnesty International.
On the demand side, we can outlaw human futures markets and thus eliminate the financial incentives that sustain the surveillance dividend. This is not a radical prospect. For example, societies outlaw markets that trade in human organs, babies and slaves. In each case, we recognize that such markets are both morally repugnant and produce predictably violent consequences. Human futures markets can be shown to produce equally predictable outcomes that challenge human freedom and undermine democracy. Like subprime mortgages and fossil fuel investments, surveillance assets will become the new toxic assets."
I do have a blog, but I’m not on Facebook, Instagram, etc. Hubby has a smart phone. I have steadfastly refused to get one. My flip phone is so old it hasa rotary dial.
I appreciate the point, but don’t quite follow the story. What did the neighbor’s weed whacker pic (or any other) have to do with having the vacation selfie trigger a mistaken ID in the criminal investigation? And what is it that she is going to be accused of?
Sorry Jen, It isn’t ten years latter. It has already almost happened. Remember when Trump threatened to send a US diplomat to Russia for Interrogation?
The Diplomat simply did his job trying to expose the crimes of Vladimir Putin.
It was a Simpler time when we thought that Trump MIGHT not be a Russian Plant.
Up until cities, nobody had anything resembling what we call privacy: All your neighbors knew all about you and the only strangers were transients who were mostly seen as criminals and worse. And up until computers and networking, we all mostly did have something resembling privacy. But that’s gone. We’re back to “everybody knows everything about you” except that the “everybody” is no longer a person on your level, but a super-powerful amoral not-very-human (if at all).
Are we feeling paranoid? Be advised, if you send a sample to a DNA company for a family tree report, that DNA report and your info also goes to the U.S. government. Yup. Don’t believe it? Criminals have been caught using that DNA info, that links the criminal to a family member, that gets the cops close enough to nab the perp. What else can they use this info for? Well ethnicity, for one. Maybe steve miller would like to find everyone who is a Latino or whatever and send them to a camp?
Zev about 4 years ago
At this point, I have an entire shop’s worth of tin foil hats.
NeuralCapsule about 4 years ago
Don’t forget that your phone number is correlated with your location data – as are those who are in discernable geotempopral patterns you share..
Social graphs are constantly updated and never deleted with all the identities you have ever communicated with (and their geotempopral patterns)..
Farcebook and the rest of the FAANG do business with sleazy data slurpers to match these patterns to any and all data they can get from the real world..
These profiles are then used to create shadow profiles on people who aren’t even on their platforms..
Then companies, politicians and worse can buy real time information about how their advertising, propaganda, etc affect those around you in real life and real time..
These behavior analytics – including the shadow profiles of those not on the platform – can be used by others to decide on things that impact your real life – without your knowledge or consent..
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” – Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick wasn’t so much a science fiction writer as a future realism writer..
phritzg Premium Member about 4 years ago
There’s currently a bill in California that would allow drivers two opportunities to redo their official license photo. This could triple the number of photos of those drivers in their database. If California passes this bill, other states are sure to follow. States share and sell this information to just about anyone who’ll pay for it. Three slightly different photos of you taken in the same controlled setting would be very helpful to a corporation or government who wants to profile you.
Kilrwat Premium Member about 4 years ago
Brave New World!
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member about 4 years ago
Winston Smith lives. Sort of.
martens about 4 years ago
You Are Now Remotely Controlled
Surveillance capitalists control the science and the scientists, the secrets and the truth.“These contests of the 21st century demand a framework of epistemic rights enshrined in law and subject to democratic governance. Such rights would interrupt data supply chains by safeguarding the boundaries of human experience before they come under assault from the forces of datafication. The choice to turn any aspect of one’s life into data must belong to individuals by virtue of their rights in a democratic society. This means, for example, that companies cannot claim the right to your face, or use your face as free raw material for analysis, or own and sell any computational products that derive from your face. The conversation on epistemic rights has already begun, reflected in a pathbreaking report from Amnesty International.
On the demand side, we can outlaw human futures markets and thus eliminate the financial incentives that sustain the surveillance dividend. This is not a radical prospect. For example, societies outlaw markets that trade in human organs, babies and slaves. In each case, we recognize that such markets are both morally repugnant and produce predictably violent consequences. Human futures markets can be shown to produce equally predictable outcomes that challenge human freedom and undermine democracy. Like subprime mortgages and fossil fuel investments, surveillance assets will become the new toxic assets."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html
Dani Rice about 4 years ago
I do have a blog, but I’m not on Facebook, Instagram, etc. Hubby has a smart phone. I have steadfastly refused to get one. My flip phone is so old it hasa rotary dial.
And it’s a-gonna stay this way!
Uncle Joe Premium Member about 4 years ago
Kudos to Sorensen for coming up with something besides the copycat Iowa Caucus themes.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 4 years ago
Creating an over surveillanced world. Tie it in with marketing and you have a global monster.
Dana Kuhar Premium Member about 4 years ago
I appreciate the point, but don’t quite follow the story. What did the neighbor’s weed whacker pic (or any other) have to do with having the vacation selfie trigger a mistaken ID in the criminal investigation? And what is it that she is going to be accused of?
jhayesd31 about 4 years ago
Sorry Jen, It isn’t ten years latter. It has already almost happened. Remember when Trump threatened to send a US diplomat to Russia for Interrogation?
The Diplomat simply did his job trying to expose the crimes of Vladimir Putin.
It was a Simpler time when we thought that Trump MIGHT not be a Russian Plant.
Since I always Cite:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/19/trump-putin-interrogate-us-ambassador-michael-mcfaul
Concretionist about 4 years ago
Up until cities, nobody had anything resembling what we call privacy: All your neighbors knew all about you and the only strangers were transients who were mostly seen as criminals and worse. And up until computers and networking, we all mostly did have something resembling privacy. But that’s gone. We’re back to “everybody knows everything about you” except that the “everybody” is no longer a person on your level, but a super-powerful amoral not-very-human (if at all).
pamela welch Premium Member about 4 years ago
Jen, this is truly terrifying; too well done.
Stormy Panda about 4 years ago
Are we feeling paranoid? Be advised, if you send a sample to a DNA company for a family tree report, that DNA report and your info also goes to the U.S. government. Yup. Don’t believe it? Criminals have been caught using that DNA info, that links the criminal to a family member, that gets the cops close enough to nab the perp. What else can they use this info for? Well ethnicity, for one. Maybe steve miller would like to find everyone who is a Latino or whatever and send them to a camp?