Facebook essay

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: David Magda <dmagda () ee ryerson ca>
> Date: September 7, 2017 at 3:03:37 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Facebook essay
>
> [For IP?]
>
> Not really news to any techie person that is moderately aware of things, but it’s good to get things out to the 
> general public:
>
> > What this means is that even more than it is in the advertising business, Facebook is in the surveillance business. 
> > Facebook, in fact, is the biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind. It knows far, far more 
> > about you than the most intrusive government has ever known about its citizens. It’s amazing that people haven’t 
> > really understood this about the company.
>
>    https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product  (long)
>    https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/09/06/lanchester-facebook  (via)
>
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lanchester
>
> Probably safe to say that Google is more of the advertiser. Wonder how to best characterize Amazon.
>
> Regards,
> David



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