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The Surveillance Potential Of Marketing Data
Commercially available data is increasingly used by government agencies via third parties to bypass warrants, as in this example. https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-used-cellphone-location-data-to-try-to-find-suspects
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Time To End s.230 Communication Decency Act Safe Harbor
The recent move by Twitter to censor political tweets is a move in the right direction. At the danger of shooting oneself in the foot (if you’re a tech giant), it shows that tech companies feel they should be held liable for hate-speech and defamatory content on their platforms. Moreover, tech giants are always solvable and they make money from other people’s content. Twitter censorship is a non-ambiguous signal that Twitter and management disavow their immunity. Fact checks should be added to all posts on social media platforms, just like it was done with the coronavirus pandemic, always pointing to a central source of truth, like the WHO (regardless of…