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Er.. No, sorry: Facebook CANNOT provide transparency

Requests that Facebook “opens up its algorithms” continue to come. Because nobody seems to realize that, no matter how surely well-meaning those proposals are, they are structurally impossible to satisfy, on any centralized platform like Facebook.

If you were worried about Russia hacking elections...

… just stop one moment to appreciate this article, and realize what its real title may (or should?) be:

When software turns churches from sanctuary to surveillance agents

There are the churches you do NOT want to enter if you care about digital rights, or even just privacy.

Most absurd and invasive things done by tech platforms

This is my own, personal selection of the “most absurd and invasive, but TRUE things done by tech platforms”(*):

You can finally have (virtual) sex with ANYONE you know. Or even...

Yes, You Can! Just combine these two pieces of news to see how easy it is (and maybe start worrying on which end of that sex you may end up).

Update 2018/01/25: check out the “confirmation” linked below

Privacy is very recent? So what?

There’s a Medium post about “The Birth and Death of Privacy” that in my opinion is great… except for its very last paragraph.