Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #capitalism #surveillance #BigWeb #web #SmallTech #ethicalTech #privacy #humanRights mstdn.ca/@teledyn/113489107039…
Aral Balkan - Free is a Lie - Thinking Digital 2014
At Thinking Digital 2013, Aral Balkan delivered the most watched and favourited Thinking Digital talk of all time. In 2014, Aral returned to Thinking Digital…Vimeo
@bjb @jrredhoIt is called Active Listening, and Alexa has a patent on it.
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Surveillance never sits still
To mark the seventh anniversary of my WFMU show Techtonic, I built this week’s episode around a simple reminder: Even more devices are spying on you. I say...Creative Good
smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •> Today, six years after that patent was granted, we can that this idea has progressed [..]:
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>> Thousands of people catching trains in the #UnitedKingdom likely had their faces scanned by #Amazon software as part of widespread #AI trials, new documents reveal. The image recognition system was used to predict travelers’ age, gender, and potential emotions — with the suggestion that the data could be used in #advertising systems in the future.
#Dystopia duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=dysto…
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in reply to Catarina :mastodon_oops: • • •@catarinac Of course :)
Here’s a more recent one: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r…
And there are many others; please feel free to use any of them – duckduckgo.com/?q=aral+balkan+…
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •The Ombré King; The Unbreaking
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in reply to The Ombré King; The Unbreaking • • •Raul Portales
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I remember "The camera panopticon" from about that time.
Just then I had worked on a social network a couple of years before, and it was very clear to me that if you don't pay for a service, you may be a user, but you're not the client, you're the product.