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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by e12e on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:41PM (#24203370)
Just rewatching "Person of Interest" and came across "Finch" casually remarking that he invented social networking in order to increase the quality of data gleaned from his totalitarian surveillance machine... (specifically to fill in the social graph data...).
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by WrtCdEvrydy on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:28PM (#24205088)
It makes sense... we've sold our data for the ability to tell 'Alexa set a timer'
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by eternalban on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:52PM (#24205294)
The society at large was akin to natives of an undeveloped land being preyed upon by an advanced civilization. They were offered glass beads and trinkets, "a mirror to amuse yourself with, your highness!". And society at large behaved precisely as the historic natives.
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