→@[email protected]

Facebook stops insurance company (https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press/releases/2016/facebook-is-right-to-stop-admiral-insurance-from-using-its-data) from doing what Facebook has patented (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/facebooks-new-patent-and-digital-redlining/407287/)

Question: Why didn’t ORG point this out in their article, where they praise Facebook?

(If you want to see where this is all going, look up Sesame Credit in China.)

#privacy

Nov 2, 2016 at 9:38amWeb
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Update: ORG updated their blog post (not their press release) after my posts and now they mention the Facebook patent in passing in what I can only describe as privacy washing:

‘It is sensible for Facebook to continue to restrict these activities, despite patents and rumours that they may themselves wish to monetise Facebook data in this kind of way.’

‘Patents and rumours’… are you serious?

https://mastodon.social/media/3911

Show threadDesiknerNov 2, 2016
@aral Find me a Facebook user that will stop using Facebook after knowing this.
Show threadinmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSCNov 2, 2016
@desikn @aral My sister and her husband both quit facebook over things like this. The problem is that we need to build more alternatives, there are plenty of people who will leave if there is a good alternative. That is one reason mastodon is so wonderful, since it can be a drop-in replacement for twitter.
Show threadDesiknerNov 2, 2016
@inmysocks @aral You had more luck than me. My family doesn't give a shit.
Show threadinmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSCNov 2, 2016
@desikn @aral Yes, I am rather lucky as far as that goes. Also it did take a lot of pushing from me.
Show threadDesiknerNov 2, 2016
@inmysocks @aral I'm afraid people don't need a drop-in replacement for Twitter. They need a drop-in replacement for Facebook. Diaspora tried but failed. I think it's too late, even if people leave Facebook in droves there's still Whatsapp and Instagram they can fall back on.
Show threadinmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSCNov 2, 2016
@desikn @aral I think that this is a good start. I know quite a few people involved in international journalism and they have recently been freaking out over vine closing down since they realized that twitter is a closed system and way too much news relies on it. So while it may not be as big as facebook it could be a large-scale proof that distributed alternatives are viable. Also if you haven't seen it check out https://ind.ie/heartbeat/, which is a project @aral is working on