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Maciej Cegłowski Quotes

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“Second, the surveillance economy is way too dangerous. Even if you trust everyone spying on you right now, the data they're collecting will eventually be stolen or bought by people who scare you. We have no ability to secure large data collections over time.”
— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech
Tagged: Tech Morality, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Software Is Eating The World
“Those who benefit from the death of privacy attempt to frame our subjugation in terms of freedom, just like early factory owners talked about the sanctity of contract law. They insisted that a worker should have the right to agree to anything, from sixteen-hour days to unsafe working conditions, as if factory owners and workers were on an equal footing.

Companies that perform surveillance are attempting the same mental trick. They assert that we freely share our data in return for valuable services. But opting out of surveillance capitalism is like opting out of electricity, or cooked foods—you are free to do it in theory. In practice, it will upend your life.”
— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech
Tagged: Tech Morality, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Software Is Eating The World
“When we talk about the moral economy of tech, we must confront the fact that we have created a powerful tool of social control. Those who run the surveillance apparatus understand its capabilities in a way the average citizen does not. My greatest fear is seeing the full might of the surveillance apparatus unleashed against a despised minority, in a democratic country.

What we've done as technologists is leave a loaded gun lying around, in the hopes that no one will ever pick it up and use it.”
— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech
Tagged: Tech Morality, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Software Is Eating The World
“Fortunately we are smart people and have found a way out of this predicament. Instead of relying on algorithms, which we can be accused of manipulating for our benefit, we have turned to machine learning, an ingenious way of disclaiming responsibility for anything. Machine learning is like money laundering for bias. It's a clean, mathematical apparatus that gives the status quo the aura of logical inevitability. The numbers don't lie.”
— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech
Tagged: Tech Morality, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Software Is Eating The World
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