The sources first:
My take on it:
On the one hand, for people who have followed the development of these e-technologies there's hardly anything really surprising in this study - the only surprise for me was the claim to reliably correlate smartphones metadata with the Big Five personality model; That. is. weird! :eye-poppi
On the other hand, for people who aren't familiar with those e-technologies and their continuous developments, this review may be of great interest in pointing which, how, by whom, and what for their data are legally and openly collected.
And I shall add that I really enjoyed this highly interesting review work. But I could be in the dark here: Are there previous equivalent reviews accessible on the interwebz?
And to prevent a possible sideway personal question: I don't have a Facebook account, and never will have one.
- A one hour video from a lecture at the 2016 Chaos Communication Congress (33C3): How thousands of companies are profiling, categorizing, rating and affecting the lives of billions.
- The document it is based upon (a free PDF version is downloadable): Networks of Control.
My take on it:
On the one hand, for people who have followed the development of these e-technologies there's hardly anything really surprising in this study - the only surprise for me was the claim to reliably correlate smartphones metadata with the Big Five personality model; That. is. weird! :eye-poppi
On the other hand, for people who aren't familiar with those e-technologies and their continuous developments, this review may be of great interest in pointing which, how, by whom, and what for their data are legally and openly collected.
And I shall add that I really enjoyed this highly interesting review work. But I could be in the dark here: Are there previous equivalent reviews accessible on the interwebz?
And to prevent a possible sideway personal question: I don't have a Facebook account, and never will have one.
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