Posts by inksong
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…,
Surveillance Capitalism
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Hard News: Media Take: In the Eye of the…,
There is always a price for content. Buzzfeed are a particularly enthusiastic scraper of personal data for the purposes of profiling. Even scarier - you know those half-arsed 'quizzes'? Well your answers to those can end up as part of your profile in Buzzfeed.
A fuller technical explanation - and some debate in the comments - is available at Dan Barker's blog ...