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 13 hours agoWell… 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.
_NetNomad@fedia.io 12 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
artyom@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Precisely.
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 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.