Comment on Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point

• LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well… from the ….article….

  Trick Google Maps to prove a big point about big data

  Weckert describes the work as a form of hacktivism aimed at exposing how fragile and influenceable data systems can be.  By manipulating something as widely trusted as Google Maps, he wanted to make the hidden mechanics of algorithms visible and understandable.

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  • _NetNomad@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i think what artyom is getting at is that showing google maps works the way we already knew it worked isn't much of a point, let alone a big one

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Precisely.

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    • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe ‘we’ know that, but certainly not the world at large. Also, it shows something interesting that some may not have thought of. You might even be able to use this for some protests or activism. Idk.

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