{"id":12405,"date":"2015-09-18T07:38:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T12:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12405"},"modified":"2015-09-18T07:38:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T12:38:33","slug":"the-facebook-of-the-future-has-privacy-implications-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12405","title":{"rendered":"The Facebook of the Future Has Privacy Implications Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/09\/17\/facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Facebook of the Future Has Privacy Implications Today<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s well established that joining a social network means trading privacy for information. Your Facebook friends, for example, get to see that picture of you looking like you\u00a0<em>might<\/em>\u00a0be stoned, and you get to \u201clike\u201d their posts celebrating the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado. Or, perhaps you simply post about your 50th\u00a0birthday party or celebrating Ramadan. Potential employers get to see all that stuff too, depending on your privacy settings, and there is evidence that some of them discriminate on the basis of age and against\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2031979\">Muslims<\/a>. Facebook, meanwhile, gets to target ads at you.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s not as well appreciated, but becoming increasingly clear, is that users of social networks in general, and of social networking kingpin Facebook in particular, are ill-equipped to evaluate the price they\u2019re paying in this trade \u2014 to determine just how much privacy they\u2019ll lose over time in exchange for status updates from their friends, and what that loss will eventually mean for themselves and their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason it\u2019s hard to think clearly about privacy tradeoffs is that data collection now occurs at a staggering scale. Facebook earlier this year\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/code.facebook.com\/posts\/1433093613662262\/-under-the-hood-facebook-s-cold-storage-system-\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that it had figured out how to store a billion gigabytes, known as an \u201cexabyte,\u201d in each \u201cdata hall\u201d room in its data centers. As people upload two billion pictures a day to the social network, older photos are moved to these \u201ccold storage\u201d exabyte systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Facebook of the Future Has Privacy Implications Today It\u2019s well established that joining a social network means trading privacy for information. Your Facebook friends, for example, get to see that picture of you looking like you\u00a0might\u00a0be stoned, and you get to \u201clike\u201d their posts celebrating the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado. Or, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6153,1868,9123,1493,338,652,9122,765,5567],"class_list":["post-12405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-data-collection","tag-data-mining","tag-data-storage","tag-facebook","tag-freedom","tag-privacy","tag-social-networks","tag-surveillance","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12406,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405\/revisions\/12406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}