Mammon category archive
Inviting Big Data into Your World 0
The EFF reports that there is a Ring of eyes recording all you do. Here’s an excerpt; follow the link for the rest (emphasis added).
The danger in sending even small bits of information is that analytics and tracking companies are able to combine these bits together to form a unique picture of the user’s device. This cohesive whole represents a fingerprint that follows the user as they interact with other apps and use their device, in essence providing trackers the ability to spy on what a user is doing in their digital lives and when they are doing it. All this takes place without meaningful user notification or consent and, in most cases, no way to mitigate the damage done.
How Far Did Wells-Fargo? 0
According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s Lee Schafer, pretty damn far.
Them What Has . . . . 0
Gene Nichol looks at the effect of Donald Trump’s economic it-would-be-dressing-them-up-in-Sunday-go-to-meeting-clothes-to-call-them policies. A snippet:
Millstones 0
I went to college a long time ago, when parents were often able to pay most, if not all, tuition and fees, before student loans became a self-perpetuating scam.
No Place To Hide 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Joseph W. Cotchett note the efforts of Big Data to weasel out from under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):
Face, we have admitted–nay, invited–these parasites into our most private lives and now, like electronic bed bugs, they have no intention of leaving.
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*A distinction without a distinction, methinks.
Facebook Frolics 0
Shorter Facebook press release: Fact? What is this thing you call “fact”?
Spin Cycle, Tariffs Dept. 0
David explains how tariffs work. It’s not how Donald Trump claims they work, despite the Trumpettes’ spin.
“The Rich Are Different from You and Me” 0
Paul Krugman describes how.
“Hey, We’re the Victims Here” 0
The owners of the “wine cave” who feted Pete Buttigieg are nursing a set of hurt fee-fees over being called out for their over-the-top self-indulgent extravagance having been noticed.