[Chester LUG] facebook

[David Holden]

It's a disgraceful exercise IMO. I wonder how many of those experimented 
on were suffering from depression? A "tap tap tap" in the wrong 
direction could lead to devastating consequences if so.

But then it's par for the course with unthinking globocorps like 
FaceBook and Google.

I'm pretty sure I read that Google's identity "merging" around Google+ 
lead to people being outed when they were not ready or wanting to be.

We're witnessing a step change reduction in privacy made all the more 
troubling by the internet's pretty permanent memory and governments need 
to surveil.

Ultimately I suspect we're all going to have to become both a lot more 
forgiving of other peoples private peccadilloes or a lot more shameless 
ourselves.

   Dave.






On 20/04/15 15:48, Robin Hemuss wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> I don't know if this is old news for everyone else. The article's a few months
> old, but still interesting I think.
>
> http://www.nature.com/news/misjudgements-will-drive-social-trials-underground-1.15553?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
>
> It seems that facebook spent some time feeding people disproportionately
> good/bad news in their updates, and monitored if they behaved happy/sad as a
> result. Apparently this is ethical because it's pretty much what they
> normally do anyway, and also it's not that much different from regular
> advertising. Sounds a bit iffy to me though.
>
> I just wondered what the general opinion over this kind of stuff is. How can
> you keep your facebook activity secret from facebook?
>
> Cheers,
> Robin
>
>
>
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Dr David Holden. (dh at iucr.org)