It's interesting to observe the pace of the official narrative regarding
CA/FB drama. It reminds of backup strategy of some animals, that are
ready to ditch tail or leg to save the body.
Initially, CA was the bad guy, and then the fall guy. Some more acute
observers noticed that it's FB that's the bad guy, and now FB is quickly
becoming the designated fall guy:
https://www.sltrib.com/pb/opinion/commentary/2018/03/20/leonid-bershidsky-cambridge-analytica-is-a-red-herring-facebook-is-the-real-problem
Neither is true. These are just recently visible emanations of the
surveillance infrastructure. Notice, as example, that these space
surveillance systems are currently spared from the public attention:
- AMZN's real time consumer surveillance infrastructure is more advanced
that anything FB has, because it uses autonomous 24/7 pickups ("Alexa",
comically paid for by the targets themselves.) In addition, AMZN
certification requires that all 3rd party devices using Alexa as a
command pipeline report their state changes in real time - light and
other switches, cameras, thermostats, etc., and, as of recently, to also
have microphones reporting to AMZN.
- APPL Homekit ecosystem is very similar, and they have benefit of
correlating with handset collections. BTW, they also plan on putting
microphones in all Homekit devices.
- GOOGL Home not only tracks home events, but correlates both with
handsets and Internet activity. They know how horny you are, how severe
your diarrhea is, and when you left the house to join the privacy protest.
- and, just for good measure, to remind that NSA is today, and every
day, recording the totality of US domestic data flow. On the upside,
everyone can now be Krapp.
Focussing attention on FB will achieve exactly nothing. FB is actually
not so bad, as they provide your diarrhea diaries to anyone that pays.
The other ecosystems are more closed and it's much harder to find out
the full extent of conditioning that they are capable of. Meddling with
elections was a skin job - ultimately irrelevant. Which is why you heard
about it.
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