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Facebook Patents Tech To Bucket Users Into Different Social Classes.
▻https://www.cbinsights.com/research/facebook-patent-socioeconomic-detection

Facebook patent uses different data sources like household ownership and education to determine class.

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A newly published patent from Facebook envisions a system to guess whether a user is in the “middle class,” or two other classes not specified.

The patent outlines a sample decision tree that would use data points the platform collects on the user, such as whether the user is a homeowner, to assign probability values and predict socioeconomic class.

Facebook notes that the patent is aimed at “third parties to increase awareness about products or services to online users.” Examples given include corporations and charities. Presumably Facebook could use the tech to target its advertising and other content more granularly.

The decision tree begins by identifying the user’s age. This creates a benchmark for what other data points will be relevant to determining class, eg presumably homeowner status is a more significant indicator for a 30- to 40-year-old vs. someone in their 20s.

Doha News statement on the blocking of its website in Qatar
▻https://medium.com/dohanews/doha-news-statement-on-the-blocking-of-its-website-in-qatar-9f3759a99282

As many are aware, Doha News became inaccessible to most online users in Qatar as of yesterday, Nov. 30.

Our URL — dohanews.co — was apparently blocked by both of Qatar’s internet service providers, Ooredoo and Vodafone, simultaneously.

Since then, the majority of people in the country have been unable to access our website on their desktop computers and mobile devices.

[…]

While we waited for their response, we temporarily diverted readers from dohanews.co to another domain name, doha.news.
However, that URL also stopped working in short order.
Deliberately blocked

Given this development and the silence from the government and ISP providers, we can only conclude that our website has been deliberately targeted and blocked by Qatar authorities.

We are incredibly disappointed with this decision, which appears to be an act of censorship.

We believe strongly in the importance of a free press, and are saddened that Qatar, home of the Doha Center for Media Freedom and Al Jazeera, has decided to take this step.

#turkey submits #Internet #Censorship and monitoring bill
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/turkey-submits-internet-censorship-and-monitoring-bill

The Turkish government has moved to impose strict controls on the Internet by monitoring the activities of online users and blocking certain keywords, a parliamentary source said on Thursday. A bill has been submitted to parliament in the latest in a string of government moves testing freedom of expression in the aspiring EU member state. The proposed legislation will allow the authorities to block keywords deemed problematic and limit access to video-sharing websites that include them, the source said. read more

#Spying #surveillance #Top_News

Zoe Quinn resubmitted her game, Depression Quest, to Greenlight recently so that it may be considered for distribution on Steam. It seems that the mere idea that a female developer could hope to have her game on Steam was enough for a bunch of online users, mostly from online bulletin board Wizardchan [Note: This wrongfully stated it was 4chan previously], to launch a harassment campaign against her.
The abuse has got so bad that Zoe has had to change her phone number after she received several sexually harassing phone calls.

▻http://indiestatik.com/2013/12/13/female-game-developers