WikiLeaks: “Hillary Emails: Google Tried to Boost Assad Defections”

Re:WikiLeaks: “Hillary Emails: Google Tried to Boost Assad D... by jnaour on Monday March 21, 2016 @07:00AM (#11327255)

Made me thinks of the last season of House of Cards. Really a good one, really neat and engaged in some aspect like Reign by Terror, Manufacturing consent using search engine, relation with Russia...

One of other HN article is about Facebook data used for social studies. If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:WikiLeaks: “Hillary Emails: Google Tried to Boost Assad D... by baldfat on Monday March 21, 2016 @07:56AM (#11327436)

> If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

I hear this all the time but it's message is a bit off. I'll quote this page http://powazek.com/posts/3229

1) Assumption: This is new or unique to the internet

2) Assumption: You’re either the product or the customer

3) My Favorite - Assumption: Companies you pay treat you better (Comcast Anyone?)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:WikiLeaks: “Hillary Emails: Google Tried to Boost Assad D... by toyg on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:15AM (#11327821)

4) Assumption: companies have one and one only type of customer / product.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:WikiLeaks: “Hillary Emails: Google Tried to Boost Assad D... by ascagnel_ on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:44AM (#11327975)

You can't even assume that a company competing for your dollars will treat your better (Verizon's tracking header junk on mobile, even with that market being far more competitive than landline).

[ Parent | on HN ]