We don't need privacy. We need Meta, FB, AI

The government took my company, embedded FBI agents, and forced us to include "backdoors" so they could spy on citizens. Why? We give them all the private information we collect on our users. (We are the government sort of but not officially). It's our right as a transnational corporation to support government that need to spy. YOU signed the agreement! If it's good enough for Winston Smith, it should be good enough for you. Go to hell. I'm a billionaire, you Proles!

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(WIRED) Russia. Cambridge Analytica. Hacks. Data breaches. Facebook has a rotten record and reputation when it comes to user privacy and control of personal data.

Mark "Facebook" Zuckerberg has a plan. Facebook is pivoting to privacy, Zuckerberg announced in a 3,200-word screed.

Zuckerberg sets out his [Orwellian] vision for the firm, saying that its future will be more focused on user privacy.

You don't understand what's at stake! My $$$

The shift comes around a year after Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal was first reported by The Observer and could mark a huge shift in how the company is organized, operates, and makes money.

Or it might not change anything at all. WIRED has unpacked what Zuckerberg is really saying in his essay and from subsequent comments given in an interview with WIRED.

"There needs to be two types of platforms in the world [one that collects user data for free, and another to sell it to spying agencies]: one is a more public platform, like the digital equivalent of a town square where you interact with lots of people [and tell them personal things] at once. That’s largely what Facebook and Instagram are. And the other platform is the private space [where we crunch, analyze, and store data, like Winston's job at the Ministry of Truth in the book], the digital equivalent to the living room."

Meta just achieved mind-reading using AI

(ColdFusion) Imagine if our brains could be scanned and the contents of our thoughts could be read. They can, but it was not useful data until A.I. was employed to make sense of the coding. A team of researchers and also Meta (formerly Facebook Corporation) have just achieved this feat by using AI. This episode of ColdFusion takes a look.

Zuckerberg has realized that people are using the main Facebook platform less. Data from the Pew Research Center found that after the Cambridge Analytica scandal 40 per cent of US adults were taking a break from the website.

People are still using other services owned by Facebook. The company is still making plenty of money.

Over the last three years Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger have been growing. The three apps have one big thing in common: messaging is a core part of how they work and that's what Zuckerberg is going to focus on with his bold ambition of [REDEFINING] privacy.

But what exactly does that mean?

AI "models" vs. human influencers: $$$

Where did Z'berg get this Orwellian idea? From

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"I'm trying to lay out is a privacy-focused vision for this kind of platform that starts with messaging and making that as secure as possible with end-to-end encryption, and then building all of the other kinds of private and intimate ways that you would want to interact—from calling, to groups, to stories, to payments, to different forms of commerce, to sharing location, to eventually having a more open-ended system to plug in different kinds of tools."

Essentially, Facebook's next focus is making money from messaging. People increasingly using Facebook's apps to talk to friends and family in smaller, private groups.

As a result, Zuckerberg will split the company into two parts that focus on public sharing and private sharing.

Privacy International researcher Frederike Kaltheuner has criticized Zuckerberg's approach for appearing to redefine what privacy means.

Uh-oh, sex with AI robots is coming (and deepfake Os will be included)

"Privacy is not the opposite of public sharing," Kaltheuner wrote on Twitter. Private sharing CAN STILL BE TERRIBLE FOR PRIVACY if the company enabling it is collecting huge quantities of personal data and using it [trade with government and nongovernment surveillance agencies like the FBI, CIA, NSA, NSC, DHS, IRS, SSO, and other "Alphabet" agencies] to target advertising. More

Who needs privacy, freedom, happiness anyway?

• Spy agency issues urgent warning to billions of smartphone users to avoid being spied on (unless you don't mind)
• ColdFusion [11/18/23 (and 2019 for fall in value). Go to brilliant.org/coldfusion for 20% off. Twitter | @ColdFusion_TV]; WIRED.com; Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly