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wruwew8uu9··on Cambridge Analytica whistleblower used same Facebook dataset for own startup
With all the information he had we can assume he knew about his employers and clients backgrounds and connections and he was cool with that. What I don't understand is how Nix and co were fooled by Channel4 into bragging about their dirty tricks when they have all this information and work with ex-spies
wruwew8uu9··on Cambridge Analytica whistleblower used same Facebook dataset for own startup
CA would have identified that you clearly have a combination of "openness" and "neurotisism" that predisposes you to conspiratorial thinking
wruwew8uu9··on Cambridge Analytica whistleblower used same Facebook dataset for own startup
Parrots
wruwew8uu9··on Cambridge Analytica whistleblower used same Facebook dataset for own startup
He states in the Select Committee hearing that despite the nosering he is a right-leaning Eurosceptic
wruwew8uu9··on Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over (2010)
I can't afford a house let alone a wall
wruwew8uu9··on John Carmack on setting deadlines
it's more about working in the knowledge that time is limited and valuable, and therefore to restrain one's perfectionism
wruwew8uu9··on Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission
because they make it so easy to join but difficult to leave. It's basically a cult
wruwew8uu9··on ViperCard – An open source re-creation and re-imagination of HyperCard
Many happy memories. Can we make it full-screen please ?
wruwew8uu9··on Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash
Yes, tests could use Boston Dynamics-type robots to simulate humans or deer etc, but the test for not killing a person crossing a highway could be simpler to begin with:

A test-road intersected by a tram-track with a motorized trolly on which various test-subjects are mounted; the car drives the road (at night under controlled lighting conditions) and the tolley drives the test-subject across the car's path at various speeds and times. The car must perform an emergency-brake, swerve or other safety move depending on the test-subject (a crash-test dummy, cardboard-box, plastic-bag, fake-bird etc).

The test result data could be fed back into the machine-learning to inform simulations for further testing in virtual environments. A company with Uber's resources can afford to build such a test-track and should have. There's a gap in the market for a company to provide such testing facilities for car makers.

wruwew8uu9··on Downloaded my Facebook data and it has the call history with my partner’s mother
FB has already inferred your identity from the graph structure and by referrences to you in conversations by family and friends
wruwew8uu9··on Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
Even if they complied with your erasure request and deleted everything from all their servers and their backups (spanning the world over a decade), think of all the non-EU third-parties who have your FB data already
wruwew8uu9··on How to Permanently Delete a Facebook Account
"Your account will be ‘deactivated’ for two weeks. After this period it will be permanently deleted."

"In theory, deleting your account immediately removes all Facebook data related to you. In reality it's more complicated, taking about 90 days."

Does this comply with the GDPR ?

wruwew8uu9··on Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
Why is Uber allowed to test its software for free on public roads ? Why doesn't it use a purpose-built test-track of its own, where it must prove that its software won't kill people (using robotic crash-test dummies to avoid) before it is allowed to use public roads ?