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jackofnightmares
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Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism

Post by jackofnightmares » October 11th, 2019, 2:38 pm

Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism
Google and Facebook are easy scapegoats, but companies have been collecting, selling, and reusing your personal data for decades, and now that the public has finally noticed, it’s too late. The personal-data privacy war is long over, and you lost.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ ... re/568198/
Millions of Flickr images were sucked into
a database called MegaFace.

One day in 2005, a mother in Evanston, Ill., joined Flickr. She uploaded some pictures of her children, Chloe and Jasper. Then she more or less forgot her account existed.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... ition.html
"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect" Santayana The Idea of Christ in the Gospels

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Re: Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism

Post by sasha » October 11th, 2019, 4:36 pm

People are apt to snicker when I tell them I don't do Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, etc etc..... and yet.....
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"Falsehood flies, the Truth comes limping after it." - Jonathan Swift, ca. 1710

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Re: Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism

Post by jackofnightmares » October 11th, 2019, 8:39 pm

I used to be really popular on fakebook


I had thousands of people sending me "friend me invitations" it bombed my inbox, so I wrote every one of them suckers and told them"I would get back to them as soon as I got back from a very dangerous mission. Then I never wrote them again."
(Yossarian catch22 from geezer memory)
sasha wrote:
but yet...
I do studio eight
"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect" Santayana The Idea of Christ in the Gospels

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