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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by vtange on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @08:10PM (#15496004)
Doesn't this just mean people will eventually start building artificial social presences to point to instead of simply lacking any sort of presence?
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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by mikro2nd on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @08:28AM (#15498545)
I assume that many already do this. There's certainly a number of business opportunities in this, and it's only a matter of time before it turns into an arms race: people building fake social-media identities, other parties (governments, big internet players) deploy AI to distinguish these from real,... rinse and repeat ad infinitum.

If I still cared enough about writing software I'd probably do a startup around some of this. Instead I'm writing SF about it.

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