{"id":4206,"date":"2022-01-11T11:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2022-01-11T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:13:58","slug":"all-credits-to-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/all-credits-to-wired\/","title":{"rendered":"All credits to WIRED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Facebook is regularly pummeled for its lax data privacy, creepy algorithmic manipulation, and inability to curb disinformation and hate speech. Last fall, WIRED was just one among many media outlets that published excerpts<\/a> from the Facebook Papers, a stash of leaked internal documents showing that the company knew full well that its automated content moderation systems performed far worse<\/a> than it publicly claimed. By comparison, Amazon has kept its public image relatively unscathed, despite its history of exploiting its workers<\/a>. But in fact, the company has been not unlike Facebook in its careless handling of your data. As Will Evans\u2019 recent story<\/a> for WIRED and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting shows, Amazon neglected its security division for years, and as a result its control over how customers\u2019 data was stored and accessed was hopelessly weak. In 2018, around the time it emerged that tens of millions of Facebook users\u2019 data had been leaked to the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Amazon learned that it had suffered a similar kind of breach, in which an outside company siphoned off millions of people\u2019s personal records. That this news didn\u2019t leak out at the time seems to have been mostly blind luck\u2014that, and the fact that Amazon\u2019s data breaches mostly only hurt sellers on the Amazon platform, while Facebook\u2019s seemed to threaten democracy itself. Massive<\/a> data<\/a> leaks<\/a> have sadly become utterly<\/a> commonplace<\/a>. But even when companies aren\u2019t losing your data, they\u2019re using it in all sorts of ways you might not expect, as we\u2019ve explained in our reporting on how TikTok sniffs out your friends<\/a> without your knowing, or the tricks shopping sites use<\/a> to get you to spend more. (For more like that, see our \u201cDark Patterns<\/a>\u201d series.) I\u2019m curious how you think about these issues as they relate to your life. Have you largely given up on trying to limit how your data is used, or have you been doing anything recently to bring it more under control? And do you have any requests for things WIRED could write to help you with those decisions? Let us know by hitting reply or sending an email to hello@WIRED.com<\/a>. And meanwhile, here are eight other stories we\u2019ve published in the past few weeks that I think you might enjoy. Gideon Lichfield | Global Director, WIRED<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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