panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
This is a great example of how profiles on all of us are going to be made by governments and corporations unless we take privacy seriously.
Corporations have been already making profiles of various types for a while now in the form of ad-tech, social media, data brokers, people search websites, credit scores, etc.
Our society has been setup for mass surveillance in a thousand different ways as a form of social control and dominance by those who wield power.
It’s time people realize that privacy is a right instead of normalizing abuses of consent.
Yep.
And if anyone doubts this, 15 years ago I had made a tool that created these types of profiles as a proof of concept.
I had scraped tons of subreddits, then you could pass in a user and based on both their subreddits and key words would categorize users across a few axes. That was just using naïve bayes, but worked pretty well.
The AI is just much much better at natural language processing to pull out more detailed info about patterns.
And those who read your comment, already knew. Those that SHOULD read it, never will. The same problem as with warning-labels et al.
If youre even near someone with a photo on fb and they got you in it, you already have a record and a ghost fb profile waiting for you.
Too late.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 day ago
*Have been made long ago and are being constantly updated.
Snowden already warned us about this over a DECADE ago. Their scopes and powers will have increased exponentially. I guarantee there’s a type of system in place that flags people before they do anything, just on pattern recognition alone. Of course, they can’t use that system as a legal basis for anything, so they don’t and use parallel constructions instead.
Anyone who thinks “this is coming” hasn’t been paying attention. We’re already there and beyond.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I find the funniest shit ever is how Snowden uncovered the biggest shit show and nothing happened. Probably the starting event for me losing all hope in this pathetic species I now call Homo Merda.
bilb@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
I wonder if being made aware of the extensive NSA spying actually had a suppressing effect on taking action itself. It was kinda scary. Overwhelming. “Best not to think about it” kind of stuff.
Pandantic@midwest.social 14 hours ago
That, and many just thinking it’s “to catch the terrorists” and “I’ve got nothing to hide!”
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I already assumed that all project 2025 purges to date have been done with input from statistical modeling, in a way that removes far more “liberals” who might refuse orders, and retains as many MAGA/fascist bootlickers as possible.
someguy3@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It was well over a decade ago that a store figured out a teen was pregnant. The father was livid they were advertising pregnancy stuff to her. He ate his words.