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2026-07-23 13:19 UTC
I was also fortunate around that time to stumble across the work of Zeynep Tufekci, who writes about tech + social habits + privacy, as well as Olia Lialina, who is an artist, media critic, and technologist.
What I got out of it, among other things, was that when companies watch/study their customers, there are always big ethical questions.
Not "can we do that" but "should we do that" ...and there is no skipping those Qs without serious consequences.
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@joecardillo@federate.social 2026-07-23 13:20
So when people ask the very real and important question "what guardrails do we, people/society, need in order to protect ourselves against the misuse/abuse of sensitive personal information?" ...the answer can't come from a bunch of people in "move fast, break things" mode in a tech company. Not unless you want to end up with an executive using a livestream of kids gymnastics for a sales demo, as we recently learned Flock Safety did.