Apropos of {waves hands around}, everyone in global tech who has not read IBM and the Holocaust should fucking well hurry up and read it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
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@backupbear @blogdiva They are already following that playbook and working to improve profits from it.
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@backupbear this is the mid-twentieth century (electro- mechanical) computing project that never gets a mention -Turings work at Bletchley Park gets all the attention -even though this one should be the first example of any computing ethics course.
The system was the first ever to perform a transitive graph closure of a population of millions to see of they satisfy the relation "is this person Jewish or do they have a Jewish ancestor?". The output was one or more DAGs of that relationship across a country.
The largest equivalent DAGs in the US are going to be whatever the government's birth certificates can infer from their "parent" entry and the Facebook graph
Facebook is possibly a more complete thought that fraction of the population who lack those birth certificate entries -and it may be possible to infer much about the immigration status based on who are connected to and what groups they are members of. Having location information from the application and any submitted photographs makes the FB dataset eve more dangerous.
I would worry about what kind of access to Facebook is going to give the government to that graph. And if my status wasn't anyway questionable, get off it -after somehow submitting their "right to be forgotten" request from an EU network address -a right embedded in law precisely because of the original work by IBM, and related projects
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