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1. Esther Payne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 23-May-2022 00:11:08 UTC Esther Payne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

   With folklore, folks used to be cautious about what to do with hair and nail clippings. As those could give a witch or sorcerer power over you.

   We have this now with our electronic clippings, we give our clippings to social networks and that gives a whole heap of power to them and to the buyers of that data who can then analyse it.

   There's an analogy for you. 😏

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   • Esther Payne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 23-May-2022 00:11:01 UTC Esther Payne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

     in reply to

     • skybrian

     @skybrian
     Nah, I'd disagree with that. Look at Cambridge analytica and the vote leave campaign.

     They were able to use targeted ads to Brexit voters as part of a political campaign.

     Targeted advertising follows folks around the Internet. It's a harmful part of a complex system

     But the harm isn't mythical. Information is leverage, particularly when it's combined with your Other information.

     Knowledge about a person is power.

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   • skybrian@mastodon.social's status on Monday, 23-May-2022 00:11:07 UTC skybrian

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     @onepict Yes, it's a great metaphor. Similarly, this power they supposedly have over us might or might not be mythical? Lots of people worry it seems hard to verify that anyone was harmed.

   • f.rift :fire_blue: (feonixrift@hackers.town)'s status on Monday, 23-May-2022 00:11:58 UTC f.rift :fire_blue:

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     @onepict
     Keeping it. This is a great one. Loki's ship of nails was the metadata we left along the way.

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