Tag: surviellance
After the mass media kerfuffle over Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment wherein the company manipulated 600,000 users’ feeds to study their emotional responses, dating megasite OKCupid made the unlikely choice of transparency regarding its own user testing. In a casual blog post, OKCupid announced the findings of three specific studies. The New York Times described the experiments: In one test, [OKCupid] […]
The Intercept has obtained a federal document detailing dramatic new U.S policies for categorizing “terrorists” and it’s massive in scope. Did you know that our government has the power to label nearly anyone a terrorist with no “concrete facts” or “irrefutable evidence” necessary? Entire categories of people can be registered as terrorists and placed on […]
