https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54348456
w quotes from article:"But the company, which takes its name from the "seeing stones" known for their power and potential to corrupt in Lord of the Rings, says the need for the kind of software it sells "has never been greater".....
The firm, which launched in 2003 with backing from right-wing libertarian tech investor Peter Thiel and America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), builds programs that integrate massive data sets and spit out connections and patterns in user-friendly formats.....
But Palantir's rise has been shadowed by concerns from privacy experts, who say the firm's tools enable surveillance and analysis of data - everything from drivers licenses and social media posts to DNA swabs - that skirts people's right to privacy and is ripe for abuse."...
By contrast, chief executive Alex Karp, who met Mr Thiel when they both attended Stanford Law School, is a self-described neo-Marxist and "card-carrying progressive", with a doctorate degree in neo-classical social theory from a Goethe University in Germany"...
Article on web 2 Oct 2020; 10:42am.
"Also, this article about citizens being relentlessly spied on and manipulated by tech companies:
Quote:" Our social media platforms are powered by a surveillance-based business model designed to mine, manipulate, and extract our human experiences at any cost, causing a breakdown of our information ecosystem and shared sense of truth worldwide. This extractive business model is not built for us but built to exploit us.
A third of American adults, and nearly half of those aged 18-29, say they are online “almost constantly”. But, unlike the citizens of Brave New World, we’re miserable. As our time online has gone up, so have anxiety, depression and suicide rates, particularly among youth.
Social media is also derailing productive public discourse. A largely ignored internal memo to senior executives at Facebook in 2018 explained: “Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness.” Left unchecked, the algorithms will feed users “more and more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention and increase time on the platform”....
"In The Social Dilemma, Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, points out that far before technology overpowers human strengths, it will overwhelm human weaknesses. Sophisticated algorithms learn our emotional vulnerabilities and exploit them for profit in insidious ways.
By surveilling nearly all of our online activity, social media platforms can now predict our emotions and behaviors. They leverage these insights and auction us to the highest advertising bidder,"
Quotes from article on web today 2nd Oct 2020 9am:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/27/social-dilemma-media-facebook-twitter-society
All christians especially have to be on alert to the ways in which we collectively are spied on, targeted on web, and suppressed by algorithyms of pagan tech companies. We have to know enough to help protect ourselves on the web and when utilizing computers/tablets/laptoprs/smartphones connected to web.
Posted on 2nd Oct 2020 at 5:57pm by me Gloria Poole,Registered Nurse, artist, of and in Springfield Missouri in my own apartment with my own equipment.
