[kwlug-disc] GMail, profile photo, and privacy: HOW'd it DO that?!?

[Doug Moen]

Cory Doctorow is my favourite writer on the topic of online privacy and digital rights.
Here's one of his articles about privacy:
https://locusmag.com/2016/09/cory-doctorowthe-privacy-wars-are-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-worse/

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, at 7:29 PM, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> > This is not "emotionally touching", but I think it is a nice summary of the issues.
> > https://teachprivacy.com/10-reasons-privacy-matters/
> 
> This site is a good resource, thank you.
> 
> The following picture shows that tells story about attaching photo to 
> email: 
> https://teachprivacy.com/store/product/cartoon-algorithmic-transparency/
> 
> >>> Google's Neural Network is smart in some cases, and stupid in others.
> >>>
> >>> In a bygone era, a family member would travel, and email the others
> >>> their itinerary from whatever booking site they used. Others in the
> >>> household would then get alerts on their phone: reminder for flights
> >>> and weather in the destination city.
> >>>
> >>> It can't tell the difference between the person traveling and others
> >>> that have received the itinerary in their inbox.
> >>>
> >>> Happened several times over a couple of years, so not just a one time
> >>> glitch.
> >> Is there a catalog of such events documented.
> >>
> >> Some of us have to find verbally concise and emotionally touching,
> >> evidence supported reasons to why someone should care about privacy.
> >> (Damn tilted PR field.) For example, I have to remember these actual
> >> "biblical stories". I can --help for git to recall nuances. But where
> >> can I find these human stories?
> 
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