On Netflix, good documentary on the social media platforms. How they put profit above your information they gather from you and how they use you to sell your information to other companies for profit. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
Key points was how they take your searches and likes and use this information. If your republican, you get republican proproganda etc (done through algorithms- programs which seek things similar to your tastes done by searches and likes). Also if you search for something on google, like porn, you get side bars of advertizers about porn sites etc. An example would be for you to google "Captain Cook" do this twice every day for a week. See what advertizer come up? My problem with this is that it takes several key words, or the information I'm looking for is on the 3rd page of the search items...
But the thing that is the scariest is how this profiling of you (and you getting specific structuring of results back), is how much it has created a divide among US citizens (democrat and republican), and their widening divide of opinion. This widening of opinion is not good.
The other problem is that the computer programs cannot distinquish between what is real and what if false news... So alot of false news gets passed on as the truth. Eg. PizzaGate.
On a side note, I was crusing the Twitter space, saw an ad about the top companies and how they were richer than some countries. Apple is worth 2 Trillion. USSR was GDP (1 year only ) 1.7 billion. Canda 1.3 Tillion GDP. So the 2 largest countries in the world yearly GDP is less that the total net worth of Apple. Something to think about. (yeah there are alot of factors left out of this calculation, like natural resources, difference between net worth vs. yearly GDP).
Key points was how they take your searches and likes and use this information. If your republican, you get republican proproganda etc (done through algorithms- programs which seek things similar to your tastes done by searches and likes). Also if you search for something on google, like porn, you get side bars of advertizers about porn sites etc. An example would be for you to google "Captain Cook" do this twice every day for a week. See what advertizer come up? My problem with this is that it takes several key words, or the information I'm looking for is on the 3rd page of the search items...
But the thing that is the scariest is how this profiling of you (and you getting specific structuring of results back), is how much it has created a divide among US citizens (democrat and republican), and their widening divide of opinion. This widening of opinion is not good.
The other problem is that the computer programs cannot distinquish between what is real and what if false news... So alot of false news gets passed on as the truth. Eg. PizzaGate.
On a side note, I was crusing the Twitter space, saw an ad about the top companies and how they were richer than some countries. Apple is worth 2 Trillion. USSR was GDP (1 year only ) 1.7 billion. Canda 1.3 Tillion GDP. So the 2 largest countries in the world yearly GDP is less that the total net worth of Apple. Something to think about. (yeah there are alot of factors left out of this calculation, like natural resources, difference between net worth vs. yearly GDP).
