AMERICAN RENEWAL_ Several Recent Investigations Show Just How Little We Understand About Big Tech’s Collection Of Personal Data

DAILY CALLER

AMERICAN RENEWAL

Several Recent Investigations Show Just How Little We Understand About Big Tech’s Collection Of Personal Data




Grae Stafford


DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION

James P. Pinkerton
Fox News Contributor
December 27, 2019 12:31 PM ET


Let’s consider three recent headlines about the impact of Big Tech. The question on the table is whether or not the American political system can even understand the power of Big Tech, let alone properly manage it. As we shall see, ignorance about the forces shaping our lives — from political elections to personal privacy to our national unity — is not bliss.

First, The Washington Post ran a piece on the controversy over micro-targeting — that is, the practice of using big data to take campaigning to the granular, i.e. individual, level. The story focused on Facebook, which has mostly resisted calls to ban micro-targeting in politics. (Google and Twitter assert that they have banned political micro-targeting, although one dreads the prospect of parsing through the nitty-digital details of such assertions.)

The Post quoted Alex Stamos, a former Facebook security chief, on the deleterious effect of micro-targeting: “Instead of two Americas, you’re potentially looking at hundreds of thousands of Americas. I don’t think our democracy can survive that kind of Balkanization of the electorate.”

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READ MORE: https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/27/big-tech-big-data-ignorance-bliss/


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