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Sep 16 6 tweets 3 min read
California’s latest data privacy law aims to switch privacy default settings from off to on for everyone by protecting minors. I prefer granting all people equal protections but the USA only has the political will to protect children from mass data abuse. nytimes.com/2022/09/15/bus…
California is also convinced of its own exceptionalism, that its rules drive the whole market, such as in auto emissions. But the CCPA/CPRA has not had the same effect in my view, as a person seeking expanded #DataRights without residing in California or the EU.
The exception to my critique of exceptionalism is that there is CCPA loophole that can be exploited for non-residents. Here is an app in beta (myfriday.io) that has so far pushed 10 obscure data brokers to respond to CCPA requests on my behalf.
This app doesn’t show you your data (lame!) and you have to turn app tracking back on at the top level and only let this one get your identifiers while deflecting all the others (annoying!) Depending on how many data brokers it nukes over time tho; could be worth it.
There should not even be 4 companies with my device linked data because I religiously employ a VPN-level tracker blocker. So even the most privacy defensive zealots need many more tools to fight back against the data brokerages with every available weapon or shield.
But as I learned the hard way from the CA/SCL fiasco, doing data protection rights by loophole and cross-border regulatory arbitrage is not going to work out that well in the end.

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Sep 16
Remarkable to see FTC draw out the mindset of A/B split testing as a catalyst for breeding deceptive design patterns in UI toward a harmful UX. #DarkPatterns ftc.gov/reports/bringi…
no one worried that covert, unethical, profit-driven automated psychological experiments on non-consenting subjects would yield harm but who cares because chart go up
That famous startup guidebook taught tech bros to intentionally deceive people with A/B as a business model discovery strategy and now it infuses the ux of everything. Image
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Sep 16
There were so many “cambridge analyticas” that Facebook couldn’t possibly make good on its audit. It had to deflect deposition at any cost.
eg. “Microstrategy's apps "had collected vast quantities of highly sensitive user and friends permissions.""the data collected…was known to be highly valuable-with many parallels drawn between the data collected by these entities and that of Cambridge Analytica."”
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Sep 14
Absolute clownshow but hey it’s super fun so why worry
Same trick that Cambridge Analytica used to weasel word their statements. Are you using Cambridge Analytica interchangeably with SCL because they aren’t. Are you using TikTok and Bytedance interchangeably because they aren’t.
It’s really the easiest hack. People and reporters/editors don’t want to get bogged down in corporate structures and subsidiaries. They just want a buzzy signifier. Lawyers exploit this weakness with aplomb. If you’re not all over it, you’re getting played.
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Sep 14
Honestly, I don’t know why anyone trusts any online reviews. It’s a fraud-filled free-for-all.
FTC to companies: Employing fake review services is a deceptive practice that violates FTC ACT. (!) Ever been approached by fake review fraudsters to attack your competitors? FTC wants your story at reportfraud.ftc.gov
Rapid advancements in synthetic media to freely generate and automate artificial profiles with convincing review text will fuel this cottage industry unless we see some regulatory deterrent to rethink our dependency on scalable frictionless but unverifiable un-trust-able reviews.
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Sep 8
Dear @Twitter ads: when i turn off ads personalization and then block draft kings bc i don’t want mobile gambling ads that gesture is not a personalization signal to quickly serve me more mobile gambling ads Image
Seriously. When you block an advertiser that’s in the sub category of a harmful product like mobile gambling then there’s a damn good chance the appropriate UX here is to stop serving me competitors of the original block, that being draft kings Image
But as we are learning from whistleblower allegations, internal document leaks, and lawsuit discovery documents, our favorite platforms like Facebook and Twitter are garbage fire spaghetti code held together with tape and glue and no one knows what the fuck is going on.
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Sep 7
Not only did Zuck help create his biggest competitor, he did so knowing they were cheating his company. Facebook may have noticed Bytedance using the scrape-and-retarget hack likely originated/perfected by Cambridge Analytica.
“Monthly Bytedance % of Spend from Policy-Violating Ads” is one hell of a chart label! Holy smokes!
“Issue: Advertisers are able to scrape IDs from the Graph API and create custom audiences without consent or knowledge from the people included in that audience, which violates our policies.”

Discovery hurts. Don’t it. Q. (By Ms. Weaver) You know, I can even make it easier. See
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