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David Carroll 🦅
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There is an @ftrain @wired cover story that I will read soon in the print edition that arrived today that will apparently make me feel better about feeling bad about tech wired.com/story/why-we-l…
btw I subscribe to several magazines now because the paywalls have gone up since adtech’s gargantuan failure to succeed at funding publishing with a viable digital advertising business model
the irony the print lives on only because digital has failed so catastrophically is amazing
loopholed privacy bills won’t do anything but preserve a failed status quo as harvesting data promiscuously and duopolistic micro-targeting isn’t doing anything good for democracy, the civic function of 4th estate eroded to the point of local news becoming an endangered species
the industry will object! don’t limit the free flow of data because that is the engine of innovation! too bad their track record sucks. a failed business model that has put publishers out of business long before data restrictions were enacted/enforced. fraud-filled. complicit.
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Lobbyists working to weaken data privacy bills in statehouses and on the Hill are defending a corrupt and fraudulent business model incapable of preventing tens of billions of dollars from being stolen by bad guys. adage.com/article/digita…
We wonder why Facebook has more fake users than real users. We wonder why Twitter is infested with bots. We wonder why local newspapers are becoming an endangered species. Adtech fuels adfraud by funding multibillion dollar dark market in R&D for botcraft and anti-fraud evasion.
Fraudsters can buy browser fingerprints hacked from users to evade fraud detection. No wonder the adtech industry can’t agree on how much fraud is out there. Cheating is cheap when our data leaks by default.
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Seems like Matt Oczkowski, formerly of Cambridge Analytica, now Data Propria, struggles to find domestic data science talent and relies on foreign workers which is a great way to run afoul of election law. He managed 2 data scientists in 2016 from SCL UK in TX on tourist visas.
Here’s the 2016 Project Alamo Cambridge Analytica team embedded in the campaign. What follows is page from Cambridge Analytica’s own report that admits they may have been in USA on “incorrect visas” for campaign work and we assume Doni and Nocera (pictured) aren’t US citizens.
Oz promised to be more ethical this time. Not sure if that includes a deep and abiding respect for FECA and the simple principal that only citizens and permanent residents should work on election campaigns. wired.com/story/data-pro…
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Alphabet could spin-off to avoid break-up. YouTube should be its own company. DoubleClick could be reborn independently. Android should be its own company. Just like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus should also be spun-off. This is not that hard.
Big Tech Synergy is good for advertisers because evermore invasive, expansive surveillance makes nifty charts that make ad spend seem less wasteful. There’s not much evidence it’s good for consumers though beyond “conveniences” we didn’t need before.
Big Tech Synergy for invasive behavioral ads is a boon to Direct-to-Consumer brands like Dollar Shave Club but it’s a disaster for publishers whose civic duty is to protect democracy. Study suggests 4% is the paltry bounty for selling out reader’s privacy. techcrunch.com/2019/05/31/tar…
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