Writing my @fluconf submission about digital poppets and the world keeps throwing examples at me.
It's like literally too many to list. 😭
This is what all of that #massdatacollection was for. Not just surveillance, but leverage and influence.
But like could it just stop, so I can be less overwhelmed?
https://youtu.be/XB5sFq5ca8g?feature=shared
#AustinTexas #Austin #FlockSafety #Flock #Surveillance #Privacy #MassDataCollection #Stalking #USpol #Fascism
FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data
Here's an essay on my thoughts on Biden's executive order to ban the sale of sensitive personal data to "Countries of Concern".
Kinda too late to close the barn door now. What counts as a "Country of Concern?" US companies already cannot trade with sanctioned regimes.
Frankly folks should be more concerned about the "Opt-out culture" of US Tech Companies with #MassDataCollection which endangers our privacy.
My pinned toot refers to the idea of little bits of our data being a risk to us because of #MassDataCollection
The harm isn't just the fact that Mark Zuckerberg farms us for data.
It's who he sells that data onto. Collating that data of what we post, our metadata as well to make #DigitalPoppets which can be used to stalk and harass us.
Sometimes by Hostile Governments but also by other rich men to puppet us via politics or commerce.
By reducing us to data.
Content warning: Superstition, data collection, metadata
As Terry Pratchett wrote, Grannie Weatherwax said in Carpe Jugulum
"There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’
‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts "
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
When you reduce people and what they create down to data you've objectified them.
Tech has a consent problem, it has a bias problem, it has a discrimination problem.
When you reduce people down to things as part of #MassDataCollection to surveill and improve your AI decisions with no transparency on the process or the data sets you ignore those folks consent.
When you insist that blocklists are bad, again you ignore consent.
Tech sins against folk.
One of the sources of #massdatacollection are online advertising networks.
The consent-o-matic nature of a lot of websites collecting data for marketeers. Or browser finger printing.
You don't know down the line where that data will be used or the future consequences for the people who gave permission initially.
It's not possible for someone to consent to potential consequences.
Ultimately those sites shouldn't be collecting that data if you need a pop up Web form to get "consent".
Targeted advertising follows folks around the Internet. It's a harmful part of a complex system
But the harm isn't mythical, it's not a sensational thriller for Hollywood to make. It's insidiously crept into our lives. Up for sale to the highest bidder for potential views.
Information is leverage, particularly when it's combined with your other information.
Knowledge about a person is power. #massdatacollection
There's a #virtualpanopticon being built around us and our connections.
Esther Payne 
BedastGPT
Thor A. Hopland
TrustNoWan