Technology
‘Scary creepy good’: The Social Dilemma reveals how our data is tracked – Sydney Morning Herald
After watching “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix, I deleted the Facebook app from my mobile phone. And I asked tech giants how much they knew about me.
Tristan Harris, the former design ethicist at Google featured in the documentary, told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald many more people were disengaging from social media after watching it than he expected.
“The goal of the film is not just to get everybody to delete the apps off their phone,” he says. “We all know that that’s impossible to expect from everyone … I think what’s changed is that it’s creating a global shared consensus about a problem.”
To uncover the extent of the proble…
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