[kictanet] Countries Do Not Control The Internet Companies Do

[Ali Hussein]

Interesting article Wangari. Thanks for sharing.

I would also recommend the movie Snowden. It's revealing and take this conversation further.

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> On 13 Dec 2016, at 11:07 PM, WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/11/countries_do_not_control_the_internet_companies_do.html
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> "...or instance: Have you ever read your favorite providers’ terms of service? When we click “I agree,” we hand over the right to track us, to profile us, to scan our email and chat content; to remove, edit, or share and sell our content without giving us a cut of the revenues. Facebook “likes” alone can reveal an individual’s gender, age, race, sexuality, political, and religious views. Target correctly inferred that a teenage girl was pregnant based on big data profiling—as her father found out when he phoned to complain that she’d been sent coupons for baby products....
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> One of the queries during the ICT review related to dominance to which this article delves into.
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> Be blessed.
> 
> Regards/Wangari
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