Facebook and the perils of a personalized choice architecture
3:30 pm PDT • April 24, 2018
The recent Facebook-Cambridge Analytica chaos has ignited a fire of awareness, bringing the risks of today’s data surveillance culture to the forefront of mainstream conversations.
It is time to have a serious conversation about the limits of choice architecture online. We should acknowledge legitimate business interests alongside the long-established practice of choice architecture. At the…
Privacy
If it talks like a government and acts like a government, it must be a tech giant
1:00 pm PDT • March 31, 2017
The ACLU reported last year that law enforcement teamed up with Geofeedia, a software company that uses social media data to track and monitor protesters. Many were outraged. Facebook and…