Whats app? Even private chatter now exploited by billionaires
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November 2014 WhatsApp: Even private chatter now exploited by billionaires David Kreps, University of Salford
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November 2014
WhatsApp: Even private chatter now exploited by billionairesDavid Kreps, University of Salford
agenda
✤ Why WhatsApp?
✤ Peter Thiel, the string-puller behind Zuckerberg
✤ The data about our “herd” behaviour
✤ Does any of it matter?
Mark Zuckerberg mosaic.(Credit: Charis Tsevis; Original Photo: Francois G. Durand)
Why WhatsApp?✤ $21.8bn purchase
✤ SMS / Email vs Messenger Apps
✤ Demographics
✤ Phone book
✤ Big Data
Peter Thiel✤ Paypal Founder
✤ Henge Fund Manager
✤ First investor in Facebook
✤ Believer in Rene Girard
✤ Mimetic theory: ‘herd’ behaviour
✤ Steering Committee of Bilderberg Group
✤ Megarich EliteFacebook Friend connections
Illustration: Paul Butler
Income Inequality - US Income Inequality - UK
Productivity vs Income - UShttp://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/pikettys-inequality-story-in-six-charts
MotherJones
Data mining the herd✤ Big Data is lots of your
little data
✤ Data mining for targeted advertising
✤ Data mining for societal trends
✤ Anti-terrorism
✤ social control
http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/aug/20/edward-snowden-21st-century-revolutionary-icon
Most global telecoms go through the US
✤ Government data requests that we actually KNOW about
✤ Massive 19% increase in such requests Jan-June 2014http://mashable.com/2014/11/04/facebook-government-requests/
✤ ‘Sentiment analysis’ looking for sarcasm that might turn into violent incidents
✤ Has govt. as much right as marketing companies to our social media / private chatter?
Does it matter?✤ Most studies suggest even youngsters use the privacy
controls on Facebook: they certainly seem to care
✤ Neocommunitarian ‘herding’ of populations by billionaire elites and security services not very democratic
✤ Privacy laws focus on the individual in the assumption that the group is thus automatically protected
✤ Need for new laws/guidelines on the protection of the group: two moral imperatives - individual human rights AND general human welfare
