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Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance
Maciej Ceglowski published a transcript of his new talk “Build a Better Monster” in which he describes how the Internet’s economic basis is built upon surveillance. He shows who makes money with user data, how this influences people and politics, and why it’s so hard (but also so important) to face and change this practice of making money of other people.