Facebook's Regulatory Adventure Is Existent As Well As It Is Magnificent (Fb)

So far this twelvemonth nosotros accept had over 30 posts on TheFacebook, every bit it was 1 time known, alongside almost all of them beingness critical of the companionship inwards 1 way or another.
The risks highlighted tin flame hold out broken downward into 4 wide areas:

1) The media backlash to having their describe of piece of work organization models undermined past times Facebook in addition to Google.
2) The surveillance capabilities of the platform companies in addition to the privacy/security risks they pose.
3) The deliberate addiction of users brains via neurotransmitter manipulation in addition to psychological engineering.
4) The role of the higher upwards characteristics past times political operators to attain their ain ends in addition to the diverse outrages, simulated in addition to otherwise, elicited.

Our motivation is pretty straightforward: How tin flame nosotros brand a buck or 2 off what appears to hold out going on?

Recognizing peril earlier the computers create is 1 approach. The dingy petty cloak-and-dagger of machine learning is that the computers tin flame really apace categorize what they are witnessing but if they accept seen the province of affairs previously. We used 1 of the funnier examples inwards the outro from Dec 2017's:

Artificial Intelligence inwards Risk Management: Looking for Risk inwards All the Wrong Places
Opportunity is where you lot notice it, plow your peril managing director into a net turn a profit center. ...
From naked capitalism, Nov 15:...

...AI cannot create create good alongside incertitude because it is non possible to develop an AI engine against unknown data. The machine is actually practiced at processing information most things it has seen. It tin flame grip counterfactuals when these arise inwards systems alongside clearly stated rules, similar alongside Google’s AlphaGo Zero (Silver et al. 2017). It cannot argue most the futurity when it involves outcomes it has non seen....MORE 

e.g.

"When Google was grooming its self-driving automobile on the streets of Mountain View, California, the automobile rounded a corner and  encountered a woman inwards a wheelchair, waving a broom, chasing a duck. The automobile hadn’t encountered this earlier in addition to thus it stopped in addition to waited."

—Markets in addition to Waterfowl: Machine Learning Is Only As Good As the Training It Receives

This introduction is getting a combat wordy in addition to thus we'll chop things into a duo to a greater extent than posts tomorrow but that's the premise, await for risks that AI hasn't yet been trained on inwards an endeavor to gain some asymmetric advantage.

If, inwards the meantime you lot tin flame convince yourself you lot are performing some variety of societal good, all the better. Speaking of the meantime here's some practiced insight until nosotros acquire roughly to parts II in addition to perhaps III.
From Motherboard:

Cambridge Analytica's Ad Targeting Is the Reason Facebook Exists

Thousands of tertiary political party apps were designed entirely to obtain in addition to sell your data. It's no surprise that the information ended upwards beingness used 1 time again on Facebook, 1 of the biggest advertising platforms on Earth.

This weekend, piece Facebook was quibbling most whether the information used past times Cambridge Analytica to target voters inwards the Pb upwards to the 2016 election was obtained inwards a information “breach” or somehow using fraudulent means, I decided to banking venture check my privacy settings.

Since creating a Facebook inwards 2006, I accept associated my describe of piece of work organization human relationship alongside 100 divide tertiary political party apps. Besides mutual ones similar Spotify, Venmo, in addition to Uber, I accept given access to my describe of piece of work organization human relationship to apps similar “Typing Maniac,” “I bet I tin flame estimate your favorite color,” in addition to “Crazy Cabbie,” amid others. Many of these apps I think but every bit a faint memory. According to these settings, however, lots of these apps soundless accept access to the same information Cambridge Analytica used to target Facebook users alongside political ads that helped Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election.

Typing Maniac—a game I vaguely think from college—has access to my populace profile, my friend list, my human relationship status, my “relationship interests,” my birthday, my operate history, my condition updates, my educational activity history, my events, my hometown, my electrical flow city, photos I’m tagged inwards in addition to that I’ve uploaded, my religious in addition to political views, my videos, my website, my personal description, in addition to my “likes.”...MORE 

Related, Jan 8's '"Facebook Can’t Be Fixed' (FB)":

Facebook’s telephone commutation employment is non unusual interference, spam bots, trolls, or fame mongers. It’s the company’s total describe of piece of work organization model, in addition to abandoning it is non an option.  

More to come.