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by sapski 7y ago
Author of the underlying study here. Facebook has been insisting that non-discrimination should be the responsibility of the purchasers, but we've shown over [0] and over [1] again [2] that even when the advertiser targets all groups p
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How Facebook's Political Ad System Is Designed to Polarize(wired.com)
1 points by sapski 7y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement(propublica.org)
65 points by sapski 7y ago|67 comments
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Facebook’s ad tools subsidize partisanship(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by sapski 7y ago|0 comments
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by sapski 7y ago
the latter, see https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to...
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by sapski 7y ago
Your feeling is correct. It's been shown by researchers (incl. me) and confirmed by Facebook that they're doing that: https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to...
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by sapski 7y ago
Here's a paper that describes it, confirmed with real profiles, not just speculation: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01955327/document
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Facebook's ad algorithm is race & gender stereotyping, new study suggests(theintercept.com)
8 points by sapski 7y ago|1 comments
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Twitter bots and information contagion(emilio.ferrara.name)
1 points by sapski 9y ago|0 comments
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by sapski 11y ago
I use https://github.com/andrea-cuttone/geoplotlib in my work and highly recommend checking it out. The lib uses openstreetmaps as background, can display scatters, heatmaps, shapefiles, calculate and display voronoi t
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Everything is broken (2014)(medium.com)
1 points by sapski 11y ago|0 comments
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by sapski 11y ago
It's true: Skyhook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft have been doing it for a while. Even more, there are free databases that you can use to map WiFi routers to locations (for example wiggle.net), but for some reason this is still not enou
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by sapski 11y ago
Yes, but: 1) you can circumvent this problem by randomizing your mac between probes, as apple already does, and that doesn't help with the threat we present 2) ssids are not unique - when it says "airport" it can be any airpo
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by sapski 11y ago
They are also willing to share their knowledge: you can do 100 requests per day for free to https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/ge... , or pay up to have basically unlimited access (that&
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by sapski 11y ago
Good point, thanks! We didn't watch the traffic of these apps yet, we just point out that they have the ability to report it back, beyond the user's control. I did however read through the privacy policies of the apps, and one of
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by sapski 11y ago
This is something different: they just know when you visit a location with a router that they control. We show that you don't need to control any routers to track people's location, as long as you have an app with the "WiFi i
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by sapski 11y ago
Also, checkout the app that shows the findings on your own data: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.dtu.compute...
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Tracking Human Mobility using WiFi signals(sunelehmann.com)
50 points by sapski 11y ago|14 comments