Re: Guest Post - Random thoughts on surveillance

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The sheer amount of Pokemon Go would probably make researchers wonder about me.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 6:58 AM
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Also, the way that you can't predict agreeableness at all. I never understood the Big Five very well, but it does seem safe to assume the most other smartphone users are disagreeable.


Posted by: NW | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 7:33 AM
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Everyone is disagreeable and has a phone. You can't do analysis on that data.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 7:35 AM
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They could have predicted disagreeableness if they'd just asked us.


Posted by: stupid phone | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 7:42 AM
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I really need to go back to Samsung.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 7:43 AM
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Of course you can democratize the knowledge.* You can pass laws to ban its collection, or regulate uses to which it can be put, and to which parties it must or must not be made available. Also, a reminder that banning Huawei etc is one of this administration's stopped clocks.
*In the same sense, admittedly, that "Of course you can arrest climate change".


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 7:51 AM
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4: Is that directed specifically at Moby?

5: Is that in response to 4?

If so, maybe you two need to see a relationship counselor.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 7:52 AM
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Is Moby the one who won't let me eat cookies? How am I even supposed to remember. It's abuse.


Posted by: stupid phone | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 7:58 AM
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I should have been more careful about using my old phone in the rain.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 8:03 AM
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I had to pay full price for this one because I needed a new phone that day.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 8:04 AM
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Is it possible that the researchers are confusing the personality of the smartphone with the personality of the smartphone user?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 8:10 AM
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My Phone and I are One. All-One-God-Faith, for we're all-One or none! Listen Children Eternal Father Eternally One! Exceptions? None!


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 8:26 AM
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Walt today you have given the precious gift of laughter. I'd respond in kind, but I don't think I can do the right tiny font with weird syntax at all well.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 9:44 AM
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Not available as a smartphone cover :
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XWPVDCR/
That's OK though:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000289066503.html


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 9:55 AM
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This but based on one's smartphone usage/contents.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 12:48 PM
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Do they have former FBI profilers doing this analysis?

From the advertisements pushed my way it seems like the "algorithm" for analyzing my search data is "look at what he's been searching for and advertise that relentlessly."


Posted by: lumpkin | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 2:16 PM
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Minivet you too. Boulet is great, to cross the streams I enjoy his games "Jeux Chiants" on my phone.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 3:43 PM
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15 was great.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 4:35 PM
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16: no no. This only uses the sensors on the phone. It doesn't analyse traffic at all. It still generated 25m data points in a month from about 700 volunteers


Posted by: NW | Link to this comment | 07-16-20 10:31 PM
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mean radius of gyration. EVERYBODY DANCE NOW.


Posted by: clew | Link to this comment | 07-17-20 4:41 PM
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I just ate two french bread pizzas.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-17-20 4:47 PM
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So, topically, the other place shows me an ad for an art group or something with a white person playing a violin before a crowd of black children with the caption "These African children had never seen a fiddle."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-18-20 4:27 PM
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