The Great Hack will leave you with questions and big concerns.
“The scariest part is there is no one villain,” Amer. “You can scrutinize Silicon Valley and Facebook all you want, but Facebook exists in a stock-market enabled society. . . . then there is this drive for growth-at-all-costs mentality, so you take the growth-at-all-costs [mentality] in a free market environment and you apply that with this ethos of grow fast and break things and this is where we end up — we are a broken democratic structure.” from www.salon.com/…
First off, yes, “we are a broken democratic structure” but now what can be done? Is the failure of Cambridge Analytica enough of a deterrent? www.theguardian.com/… What is the next iteration? Brad Pascale will be using it. The search for Persuadable continues in the USA, Great Britain, Russia, China, India, and with any business venture online.
Why is my data not mine? Why are world oligarchs manipulating data? Whomever controls the data, controls the world. techcrunch.com/… Is it possible to have a democracy with such forces undercutting it? Bannon wants to deconstruct governmental structures and he helped form Cambridge Analytica.
With this dynamic is there any chance for a real democracy especially if the public is uneducated? Finland educates their population regarding propaganda techniques. foreignpolicy.com/...
In Medicine, if you want to experiment on humans you have to have approval of an ethics committee. No such thing for Facebook, Google, and data mining corporations such as the former Cambridge Analytica.
What efforts are underway for requiring ethical use of personal data?
If you watched The Great Hack, what are your thoughts?