Re: [projectvrm] [projectVRM] Morozov's latest in FT

[Don Marti < >]

Morozov gives the Big Data bubble a promotion, to
"transformation in how capitalism works".  That's
perpetrating more digital woo-woo than most of the
net delusion crowd he criticizes.

But he does have a good point about the fundamentals
of the surveillance-marketing complex. As long
as we keep building networked systems to act as
coin-operated surveillance machines, then it doesn't
matter if one government agency swears not to put a
nickel in the slot.

Bonus links: can we stop hair-splitting between "PII"
and other data already?
  
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/stanford-researchers-it-is-trivially-easy-to-match-metadata-to-real-people/282642/

One weird trick...put a damn ad blocker on your mom's
computer already:
  
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/the-dark-lord-of-the-internet/355726/2/

Adtech developer repents, founds privacy startup:
  http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/disconnect/

begin Matt Hogan quotation of Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 03:56:49PM -0500:
> 
> Evgeny Morozov, no doubt a smart guy, has penned another screed (on top of
> last month's MIT Tech Review article), this time in FT, about how new
> tools, new laws and transparency aren't solving anything. In fact, he
> basically belittles many of us on this list as peddlers of "consumer
> empowerment utopia". It appears his prescription to our structural ills is
> more debate.
> 
> New FT article:  http://evgenymorozov.tumblr.com/post/71228557738/my-ft-oped
> 
> Last month's MIT tech review:
> http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520426/the-real-privacy-problem/
> 
> 
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