Ed Jewett Wrote:* I was going to suggest that we have some kind of mechanism everyone would be required to wear... an IFF beanie... that transmitted in the background and in an ongoing manner the full array of self-labels, information consumption trends and tendencies, the results of psychological screening tests, one's tendencies or proclivities....
or, it appears, we could simply carry an android that would do it for us.
'mere C3PO...
I am reading e.g. here:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/ that SIRI sends some or all of your audio to servers by "Nuance Communications" for analysis and receives back the analysis.
Imagine: What can anybody know and do if he has access to every word you speak into your mobile, plenty of your voice samples together with accurate location? It makes it very easy to : 1. Identify your voice, e.g. on a normal phone connection, 2. Synthesize your voice for any purpose, 3. Use the content of your words for any purpose (advertising being the most innocent of them).
The perfection of the elimination of privacy and identity is stunning.
October 17th, 2011I know. You get it re: Facebook already. Ok, one more:
Why Facebook Is After Your Kids.
Via:
Register:
A Mississippi woman has accused Facebook of violating federal wiretap statutes by tracking her internet browsing history even when she wasn't logged onto the social networking site.
In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in federal court in the northern district of Mississippi, Brooke Rutledge of Lafayette County, Mississippi, also asserted claims for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, trespassing, and invasion of privacy.
The complaint, which seeks class-action status so other users can join, comes three weeks after Australian blogger Nik Cubrilovic published evidence that Facebook "Like" buttons scattered across the web allowed Facebook to track users' browsing habits even when they were signed out of their accounts.
"Leading up to September 23, 2011, Facebook tracked, collected, and stored its users' wire or electronic communications, including but not limited to portions of their internet browsing history even when the users were not logged-in to Facebook," the 17-page complaint stated. "Plaintiff did not give consent or otherwise authorize Facebook to intercept, track, collect, and store her wire or electronic communications, including but not limited to her internet browsing history when not logged-in to Facebook."
Related: Facebook Reportedly Can Track Web Browsing Without Cookies
Posted in Economy, Surveillance, Technology
Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:Ed Jewett Wrote:* I was going to suggest that we have some kind of mechanism everyone would be required to wear... an IFF beanie... that transmitted in the background and in an ongoing manner the full array of self-labels, information consumption trends and tendencies, the results of psychological screening tests, one's tendencies or proclivities....
or, it appears, we could simply carry an android that would do it for us.
'mere C3PO...
I am reading e.g. here: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/ that SIRI sends some or all of your audio to servers by "Nuance Communications" for analysis and receives back the analysis.
Imagine: What can anybody know and do if he has access to every word you speak into your mobile, plenty of your voice samples together with accurate location? It makes it very easy to : 1. Identify your voice, e.g. on a normal phone connection, 2. Synthesize your voice for any purpose, 3. Use the content of your words for any purpose (advertising being the most innocent of them).
The perfection of the elimination of privacy and identity is stunning.
Yes, I've been seeing quite a bit recently about Siri and the implications are quite stunning to say the least.
I am reminded of an old favorite poem of mine I found in a volume of poetry I received in the 8th grade for winning the summer reading contest. I used to keep it written down and folded up in my wallet for a very long time until it finally entered into me via osmosis. My middle name begins with the letter E, so it was particularly special to me.
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e e cummings
US poet (1894 - 1962)
2710
2011
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October 27, 2011 12:09 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - On October 31, Yerevan will host
Facebook Workshop free video seminar on integration of mass media in social networks as well as Facebook-provided media possibilities.
The rapporteurs, Facebook Russia growth manager Yekaterina Skorobogatova and Facebook Russia and Eastern Europe development manager Angela Tse will brief the audience on transformed means of communication, modern use of media content as well as a number of alterations at Facebook platform and the way media partners may benefit from it.
The seminar will be held in Russian and English languages (simultaneous translation provided).
Video seminars with Yerevan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, (Russia) Kiev (Ukraine), Astana (Kazakhstan), Tbilisi (Georgia), Chisinau (Moldova) and Tomsk (Russia) have been scheduled.
The event is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of RIA Novosti news agency.
OK,probably not going to happen.......
Anonymous does not support killing Facebook on November 5
By Emil Protalinski | August 10, 2011, 8:20am PDT
Summary: Some Anonymous members are looking to kill Facebook, but the larger hacktivist group does not appear to support their cause.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/anony...=mncol;txt