Prasówka #47: Manila, Dhaka, Facebook Cambridge Analytica

Protecting people’s information is the most important thing we do at Facebook. What happened with Cambridge Analytica was a breach of Facebook’s trust. More importantly, it was a breach of the trust people place in Facebook to protect their data when they share it.

Your data is probably being used without your consent. This is, I hope, not a shock to you. In fact, it’s one of the biggest takeaways of the recent investigation involving Facebook and a data mining company called Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook is using us. It is actively giving away our information. It is creating an echo chamber in the name of connection. It surfaces the divisive and destroys the real reason we began using social media in the first place – human connection. It is a cancer.

Cities can be dense without being overpopulated. But in the world’s most crowded city, the drains can’t cope – creating a grim new job After decades cleaning the sewers of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s crowded capital, Sujon Lal Routh has seen plenty of misery. But the tragedy of 2008 was the worst.

Miranda, 68, has been living with her husband and children in a teetering shanty above a stack of graves in Manila North Cemetery since 1966.

Najłatwiej udziela się wtedy rad: zapomnij, nie myśl o tym, nic nie mogłeś zrobić. Takiego wspomnienia nie da się jednak wymazać z pamięci. Można je tylko przesunąć w jej najmroczniejszy zakamarek.