Biden Administration Makes First Move on Data Privacy (axios.com) 45
The Biden administration is launching its first big effort on privacy policy by looking at how data privacy issues affect civil rights. From a report: The National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA), the telecom unit of the Commerce Department, plans to hold "listening sessions" and seek comment on the intersection of privacy, equity and civil rights, according to an agency notice. NTIA intends to develop a report on the "ways in which commercial data flows of personal information can lead to disparate impact and outcomes for marginalized or disadvantaged communities." The agency noted that data collection can lead to harm through discriminatory targeted advertising or via software that uses race as a factor in predicting academic success, as detailed by a report in The Markup.
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Biden Admin? (Score:2, Insightful)
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I really wonder who is running the country.
It isn't Biden.
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Have they learned nothing from Brexit?
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Well the Biden administration...that includes President Biden and other members of the executive branch. Now the president isn't personally going around making all these policies which is what some people seem to think the president does. They're probably brought to him by his staff and he'll review and sign off on it at which point it goes to NTIA to be fleshed out.
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I really wonder who is running the country.
You've never seen the phrase "Such and Such Administration" ever before?
Seriously?
Marketing Good, Sales Evil. (Score:2)
Well not quite, Marketing is actually a vital activity, you can have the best product or service out there, but if people don't know about it, you will not be able to sell it. And people will not be able to take advantage of the benefits of your product and service. Ad's as well are not necessarily bad, as they will often fund many of our free or reduced price services. A site like Slashdot wouldn't survive without ad support, because most people wouldn't pay a fee to use it (pay wall), and would have a d
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If your product is good and reasonably priced you can just give out some review samples.
The problem is that most products are shit, so their only hope it selling is by hyping them up with marketing. The more marketing something has the more likely it is to be crap.
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You mean we are not encumbered by a number of Bias and/or Fake Reviews by reviewers who may have a degree of self interest to positively or negatively review a product despite its actual quality.
I am sure we will get a good honest review from AndroidWorshiper12 video channel sponsored by Samsumg, on the new iPhone
Also review samples are often given to those who will support the product, known for good reviews, and the samples are often cherry picked to be the best they can offer.
Actually the quality of pro
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The people who give honest reviews quickly float to the top. People like MKBHD.
Cue the Cheerleaders (Score:2, Insightful)
The leader of "Team Blue" proposed something, so we need "Team Red" to explain how it will lead to The End Of The World.
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plans to hold "listening sessions" and seek comment on the intersection of privacy, equity and civil rights
It almost looks like someone is purposely trying to write the most woke sentence they can think of. Almost a paraday
Re: Cue the Cheerleaders (Score:3, Funny)
We are Borg (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, building dossiers on an individual's click, search, and browsing habits to enhance targeting advertising is really bad. But the totality of data about individuals and groups has enabled the companies aggregating that data to change behavior, not just influence purchasing decisions...actually change people's thinking and behavior. The best way to get someone to do something they ordinarily wouldn't, is to make them think taking that action was their idea.
Marketing experts can tell you that various marketing efforts work precisely because people can be influenced. The enormity of data collected and the breadth of reach to apply what is learned from from that data, allows individuals, companies, and governments to slowly and imperceptibly change a population. With the data aggregation efforts by Google, Facebook, et. al., I feel like we have seen that humans can essentially be programmed.
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It's even worse when applied to democratic events. One very worrying thing that came out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal was that because the vote was very close to 50/50 they only needed to target a small number of gullible individuals, a few hundred thousand. Facebook's data helped them identify useful idiots who could be easily influenced and lied to.
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I'm reasonably sure that long before it gets that far they'll stop calling them booster shots. Instead, you'll be getting your annual flu shot and your annual COVID shot.
Re: deranged redumblicans (Score:1)
Its a wonderful site [sic] to see Well it made me laugh. You dumb cunt. Do you have a link to this site?
Re: deranged redumblicans (Score:1)
Oh, that's right. I forgot that members of my party can't remember anything that happened before the last election cycle. It's one of the long-term effects of Obamamnesia...
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communism? LMFAO.
NOTHING to do with that.
Plenty to do with the US Elite wanting to rob US citizens of tax dollars.
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The change from equality to equity does make a difference.
It is nuanced, but important.
Easy fix that would be useful... (Score:5, Insightful)
Biden could fix data privacy in the US in two easy ways:
1: Copy the GDPR, perhaps doing a sed s/EU/US.
2: Copy Russia's laws requiring data on US people be stored on US servers.
Done.
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Biden could fix data privacy in the US in two easy ways:
Agreed, but they don't care about fixing it. They care about putting together committees to study it, and secondarily, racking up the woke points for studying it in the context of "equity and civil rights".
Fixing it would mean less $ in their pockets. That's not happening.
Stop TURMOIL and TURBULENT and bulk collection (Score:2)
you know... all those secret programs being used to spy on all of us.
Really? You can't just say this is bad? (Score:5, Insightful)
This is why the Dems are gonna get hammered next year. They focus on the minority that is impacted, while not only ignoring, but openly belittling the majorities that are also impacted.
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Yep; see here [youtu.be].
Also in Criminal Justice (Score:2)
See Loomis v. Wisconsin [wikipedia.org]
inequity, eh? (Score:1)
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Wonder if the people who put that line in are aware that "equity" and "equality" are NOT synonyms....
People that write "equity" nowadays know exactly what they mean. Write "equality" and you'll be called a racist.
Equit (Score:2)
It's not about privacy, it's about "equity"