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The Matrix has you (Article about algorithms/privacy) (freedomnews.org.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22523265

There’s a reason that cookies and privacy policies (in the EU at least) have become such an online nuisance. These assurances of your safety and privacy are nothing more than a pretext to get consent. Your “anonymised” data is sold to an infinite regress of third parties, analysed, correlated and de-anonymised again. Any smart device you use, your browsing habits, banking transactions, your GPS position are all used to deduce fine grain information about you. Then weaponised against you for as much profit as possible.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Great article.

None of these platforms intended to enable stochastic terrorism, but it made them money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for posting here!