This is a photo of a crashed kiosk advertising the menu and offers at a popular Norwegian pizza restaurant chain. It shows that the kiosk was running facial recognition and basic sentiment analysis on the people looking at it.
Based on the number of people who sent me this on Twitter, it’s clear that people care and are unhappy with corporate surveillance.
The worst bit? Compared to what Google and Facebook do daily and at scale, this is a toy.
…It just goes to show how important it is that we reveal the unethical cores behind the shiny interfaces of these people farmers. When people see the surveillance-based business model that lies behind Google’s cute doodles, they do care and they are outraged by what they see. One of our challenges is to force these companies—through regulation—to be as transparent as possible.
Source: Photo was shared by Lee Gamble. Link to original tweet: https://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/862307447276544000
@aral making things more transparent do not make them less problematic. Everyone knows that Google runs on ads. You want to fix their greed for more private information? Get rid of them, make them illegal, suppress their power.
And you won't get that by regulations, especially not when the people in charge of these regulations are in favor of such companies. No, you have to get rid of capitalism, that's it.
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