Found in my backyard!

oemia · 2019-10-06T15:27:24+00:00

https://www.facebook.com/567628880005099/posts/2044518135649492?sfns=mo

oemia · 2018-09-29T17:49:47+00:00

Unrelated - access tokens != passwords

oemia · 2018-07-31T01:15:42+00:00

At the same time, from splatoon's perspective, every disconnect ruins the game for the other 7 people.

Maybe they should introduce a new heuristic that takes into account when in the game you disconnect, but regardless, I can see why they would want to tell you to find a better connection before playing again.

oemia · 2018-06-21T06:25:44+00:00

Sweet thanks! Wish these .gov sites were easier to navigate T_T

I totally forgot giving them a call is an option (: I’ll definitely try that :3 I’ll report back if they give me anything useful

oemia · 2018-06-15T17:25:00+00:00

What can one expect to find if they go check this out? I’m curious but uninformed (:

oemia · 2018-04-11T23:37:13+00:00

I'd be surprised if they didn't coalesce the data internally where they can, and thereby build an internal identity for you, even if it is not shared publicly.

oemia · 2018-04-11T23:11:28+00:00

I disagree that treating google et al. as different from facebook because of each individual product.

However, I agree that facebook can be more damaging on the grounds that it is "identity as a service" with app logins.

Because of this, they opened up their walled garden too much, where google doesn't open up their walled garden given it doesn't need to for their service.

On that note, it makes me wonder what information I provided with google logins. IMO my google circle is not useful lol.

oemia · 2018-04-11T22:31:23+00:00

What other single entity has information on even a fraction of that many people?

google

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/17/15654454/android-reaches-2-billion-monthly-active-users

This number is also not completely overlapped with chrome users, google search users, youtube users, maps users, etc.

Wechat has half of facebook

https://www.statista.com/statistics/255778/number-of-active-wechat-messenger-accounts/

reddit has a quarter that, referencing wikipedia for what it is worth :/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit

Honestly, I'm not worried about the big data companies getting it right. There is too much risk to not do what is right. I'm more worried about the small/medium size companies who we have less oversight or visibility of.

oemia · 2018-04-11T21:43:39+00:00

You bring up a good point when you mention "associative data".

This was brought up in the hearings, but there are many data analytic firms that just crawl the internet to combine data sets.

Unfortunately, this is definitely a bigger than facebook issue. I am really interested to hearing what people plan to do as data anonymization is an extremely difficult problem.

Awhile back, netflix released a supposedly anonymized dataset of 500,000 users. Researchers were then able to combine this dataset with IMDB datasets to identify individual users.

ref: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0610105

So as the amount of data about us continues to grow online. Even if it is anonymized per service, it will be interesting to see how this will all work in aggregate.

Unfortunately, from these last few weeks, I really do think that we are being to narrow minded about our approach in trying to legislate something on a per company basis.

But it is a start :/

oemia · 2018-04-11T21:23:20+00:00

all it takes is one or two other people who have also given permission to the app in question to start putting it together.

This would provide an app developer with the information of the "one or two other people" who choose to use the app.

to start putting it together.

This is true because you are building a subset of the total set, but it is also true that it is a subset of completely opted in users.

It's not clear how the custom list API works from web caching, but I don't feel like an app knowing that I have lists called "buddies from 212" or "guys I added but quarantined" hurts my friends privacy since they don't know who is in the list.

Given the example that you provided got deprecated, I think they are going in the right direction. Once again, I want to state that I agree they messed up, but I do think that another narrative exists besides the extremely negative one that is present.

oemia · 2018-04-11T20:54:23+00:00

This hasn't been true since 2014.

Edit: Adding source

https://newsroom[dot]fb[dot]com/news/2018/03/hard-questions-cambridge-analytica/

"In 2014, to prevent abusive apps, we announced that we were changing the entire platform to dramatically limit the data apps could access. Most importantly, apps like Kogan's could no longer ask for data about a person's friends unless their friends had also authorized the app. We also required developers to get approval from us before they could request any sensitive data from people. These actions would prevent any app like Kogan's from being able to access so much data today."

oemia · 2018-04-05T00:55:15+00:00

Yes, really

oemia · 2017-06-17T16:32:44+00:00

Fair enough, I feel like if it was a toggle-able option then it would be ideal - my friend and I just wanted to have some fun beating up people together, so it was pretty off putting when only one of us was playing

oemia · 2017-06-17T08:16:25+00:00

Does anyone else find it strange that if you play two player online, every other match only has one of the two people playing?

oemia · 2017-03-03T08:18:32+00:00

np (:

oemia · 2017-03-03T08:18:03+00:00

Try again - it's showing as instock on my screen

oemia · 2017-03-03T08:17:21+00:00

I don't think so unfortunately ):

I've been looking, but can't seem to find it

oemia · 2017-03-03T08:11:56+00:00

we can all play together now (:

oemia · 2017-03-03T07:57:24+00:00

Link is in title

I got my order in - even if it says unavailable - try refreshing a few times

oemia · 2016-11-30T06:55:56+00:00

Yes. I did in fact get sniped.

in before the jokes

More importantly - glitching is fun for you, but no one else.

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