And may affect how they interact with others and thats something that is highly unethical it appears that some young people may have been so affected by this that they may have done harm to themselves based upon what they saw on their facebook feed and it was all because it is experiments do things that we have no standing with facebook were not citizens of facebook we have no food on facebook its not a democracy it is this process is not a way we can design the future we cant rely on this Single Company to invent our digital future. Theres theres what i call the creepy line and the google policy about a lot of these things is to get right up for the creepy line but not cross it google crosses the creepy line every day. Not only does google cross the creepy line the location of that line you keep shifting. Well its an interesting word creepy right because its a word that connotes horror he didnt say dangerous he didnt say unethical theres all sorts of words that could have fit in not slot he said creepy and a creep is someone who creeps around and follows you and spies on you for unsavory purposes right thats the definition of a creep you know i dont think the typical ethical person says im going to push right up to the line of creepy and stop there you know they say more Something Like how about we dont get near enough to the creepy line so that were ever. In gauging in even pseudo creepy behavior because creepy is really bad you know its. A creepy mugger is worse than a mugger the mugger wants your money god only knows what the creepy mugger wants its more than your money and you give google a lot of information you searching for the most private stuff on google youre searching about you know illnesses and diseases that your family have youre searching about things that might be your wife may or your spouse might not want you to know about and youre going to be telling google more than you would tell a Family Member or your spouse or a very close friend and google has so much information about you that its scary for who are were starting 3 very powerful ways in which theyre impacting peoples opinions. And this phenomenon that we discovered a few years ago seem Search Engine if you lation affair is a list of facts list effect is an effect that a list has on some aspects of our cognitive functioning whats higher in a list is easier to remember for example seen as an example of a list effect but with a difference because its the only list effect im aware of that is supported by a daily regimen of operant conditioning that tells us that whats at the top of search results is better and truer than whats lower in the west. Its gotten to a point that fewer than 5 percent of people quit beyond page one because the stuff for it on page one and typically at the top in that sort of above the fold position is the best most of the searches that we conduct are just simple routine searches what is the capital of kansas and on those simple search is over and over again the correct answer arises right at the top so we are learning over and over and over again and then that day when we look something up they were really unsure about like where should i go on vacation which car should i like which candidate should i vote for and we do our little search and their results and what do we know whats at the top is better at the top is true or that is why its so easy to use search results to shift peoples opinions this kind of phenomenon this is really scary compared to Something Like fake news because its invisible theres a manipulation occurring they cant see it its not competitive because well for one thing google for all intents and purposes has no competitors google controls 90 percent of search in most of the world google is only going to show you one list in one order which have a dramatic impact on the decisions people make on peoples opinions beliefs and so on. The 2nd thing they do is what you might call the auto fill in if you are searching for a political candidate congressman john smith you type in congressman john smith and they will give you several options that will be a prompt as it were as to what you might be looking for if you have 4 positive search suggestions for a candidate well guess what happens seem happens people whose opinions can be shifted shift because people are likely to click on one of those suggestions. Thats going to bring them search results obviously that favor of that candidate that is going to connect them to web pages that favor that candidate but now we know that if you allow just one negative to appear in that list it wipes out the shift completely because of phenomenon called negativity bias one negative can in some demographic groups drop 10 to 15 times as many clicks as a neutral i mean the same list turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar so this is an incredibly powerful and simple means of manipulation if you are a Search Engine company and you want to support one candidate or one cause or one product or one company just suppress negatives in your search suggestion all kinds of people over time will shift their opinions in that direction that where you want them to ship but you dont suppress negatives for the other candidate the other cause the other product and then 3rd very often google gives you a box so they will give you search results but theyre below the box and up above is a box and the box just gives you the answer. When it comes to local search which it turns out is the most common thing people do in google 40 percent of all searches its not so clear if im doing a search for a pediatrician in scranton pennsylvania what happens is google still bisects the page shows the organic meritocracy based information far down the page and pops its answer box up at the top but its populating the box with its own sort of restricted set of information that its kind of drawing from its own kind of proprietary sandbox these are just googles reviews that its attempted to collect over the years users are habituated to assume the stuff at the top is the best but instead its just what google wants them to see and it looks the same and what happens is googles base. Able to put its hand on the scale and create this direct to consumer harm because that mom searching for the pediatrician in scranton is not finding the highest rated pediatrician according to googles own algorithms or shes just getting served the google thing no matter what and that i think is leading to you know terrible outcomes in the offline world so google has at its disposal on the Search Engine itself at least 3 different ways of impacting your opinion and it is using them were talking about a Single Company having the power to shift the opinions of literally billions of bebo without anyone having the slightest idea that theyre doing so. They ask us about and switching gears and asking about the sort of privacy and information we have a phone youre talking about the i guess technically always on we have google which basically maybe knows what im going to ask for before i ask for it finishes my search request it knows everything thats going on in my household and should i be concerned about how much you know about me weve had this question for more than a decade google and our answer is always the same you have control over the information that we have about you you can actually have a deleted you can also search anonymously you will you get to choose not to give us this information but if you give it to us we can do a better job of making Better Services for you and i think thats the right answer these Computer Systems naturally collect this data but we also forget it after a while and weve written down why and how. Google wants you very much to haves privacy from everyone except that. The 1st thing we all should do is quit using g. Mail google stories analyzes all the mails that we write and all the incoming emails that we read the ones coming from other. Email Services Google tracks it all really track the g. Mails that you write they track the drafts of those crazy emails that you decided not to sand. And the information from and is then put into ones personal profile and becomes another source of information they have for sending people targeted ads tech giants are increasingly under scrutiny from politicians regulators and experts on the left and the right some are concerned about their growing power even calling the monopolies and the tension keeps building yet their wall in contemporary life certainly isnt shrinking we need to at the news hour have worked in collaborated with Facebook Google and many other new media businesses journalists who might communicate with regularly about these issues including journalists at Time Magazine the guardian the hill i could go on and on very using g. Mail not only that their companies are using a form of g. Mail their emails are running through google servers all of their incoming and Outgoing Communications are being monitored by google this is happening also major universities if you enter the university of california after a certain date guess what youre using g. Mail whether you know it or not and it was found that google was yes in fact scanning student emails for non educational purposes and what those not and purposes were we still dont know to this day because google still has not come clean with what they were doing with the information they still havent certified that they have deleted that data the big challenge was when i found out that google was scanning our student emails for advertising purposes and other non educational purposes i went to my state lawmakers and i tried to encourage them to introduce legislation that would ban these practices when i went to the state house who was there a lobbying against any stronger privacy. Protections for our kids it was. Facebook. Each simulating civilization will be able to run using a tiny fraction of its resources. Hundreds of thousands millions of rounds for all of Human History almost all. Beings with our kinds of experiences with them to simulated ones. And conditional and we should think therefore that one of the simulated ones. Was. Probably the. Only time. Well i guess it makes sense that so many parts of our life would be influenced by google but guess what the federal government runs on google so if youre counting on the federal government to regulate google realize that the federal government is using google docs theyre using google tools in some cases there are even linked to g. Mail so google has fused itself with our federal government in so many ways the governments motivation for using it is well googles already done it and they they have this thing that works it seems to be working pretty well for consumers to the idea behind it was well that we will lead this but some Government Agencies on google docs you know will use google cloud for some things they lack the cognitive lags pretty soon have the necessary security on it and then it becomes a big embarrassment afterwards of trying to keep it out of the media because people would rightfully point out there is a huge Security Risk some members of congress are calling for an investigation of google. 1st secretly tracking i phone users all over the internet even users who thought they had blocked that kind of surveillance were you see this pattern emerging over and over again so look at google street view google agreeing to pay 7000000 dollars to settle what 38 states are street new cars collection of data from unsecured by 5 networks vehicles equipped with antennas and open Source Software and gathered Network Identification information as well as data frames and polo data being transmitted over unsecured Wireless Networks as the cars were driving by its a great tool for say tourists or transplants but privacy advocate Kevin Bankston says google is being too invasive there are a lot of people on the web who or i think. By this they find it kind of unconscionable and so absent the fact that they got caught and they were fined and they tried to cover up some of the things that they were doing and the media got wind of it nothing would have happened to them the new google how many has a massive problem and it isnt even out yet it was released to reporters last week to test it out one journalist discovered his device recorded everything and uploaded it more and more people are beginning to use the Smart Devices in their homes theres 2 things to it that i think people need to be aware of the fact is that its always on and always listening so its collecting an enormous amount of data on their users the other thing is the fact that it is only giving you want to answer back to. The rose. Bowl the summary in the website of the national geographic. Runs through as this is now. I think its something its we should be aware of whats happening with the bias being introduced because more and more people are starting to use these units and certainly children are using it and the kids dont have the ability to discern that its a biased result according to a new report by the law. Tronic Frontier Foundation schools are collecting and storing kids names birth dates browsing histories location data and much more without proper privacy protections they wanted to schools and they offered their google apps for education for free to schools but they werent telling anyone was theyre actually collecting information on our kids secretly and theyre using this for profiling purposes we just dont know how that information is going to be utilized against them it could be utilized against them when they apply to college could be utilized against them when they go in for a job it could be utilized against them for insurance it could be utilized against them whenever you want to buy something online and theyre taking that information and theyre weaponize ing it against their own kids and guess what happened nothing absolutely Nothing Happened when when the f. T. C. Heard about it when the partner education heard about it they took no action. So google grew out of the ph d. Program at stanford right they have this affinity for academics they view themselves as academic a little bit in nature their campus looks like a College Campus so google provides a ton of funding for academic institutions individual academics all around the world so we found Something Like 300. 00 papers that were funded by google in some way that supported googles policy positions they like to say hey we have the countrys foremost academic experts behind us and what theyre not telling the public is the fact that theyre actually funding these socalled independent experts hes so hot in the pen and academics where shows have time for congress about whether or not google is a monopoly she was relying on academic study to bolster his point they didnt disclose at the paper with actually funded by google. Are you concerned that your company has been exerting enormous power. Kirby in ways that hurt many Small Businesses and local extremely good and well meaning Small Businesses and down the drain we are in the rankings business and so for every loser theres a winner and so forth i am. Satisfied that the vast majority of Small Businesses are extremely well served served by our approach and as i said earlier its going to be sure i do believe that if anything our system moves and insists more business over larger businesses because it gives them a hearing in a rule it would not otherwise have is the nature of the way the algorithms work. Google has a blacklist and the biggest blacklist they have is called their quarantine list. Now im guessing very few people have ever heard of this list and yet im telling you it not only as a tool of censorship it is by far the biggest and most dangerous list that google maintained for the purpose of controlling information the quarantine last is a list of websites that google doesnt want you to visit are there a 1000 items on this list there are millions of websites on this list will has the power to block access to websites and there are no relevant regulations theres no oversight theres no Advisory Group theres nothing or no one even realizes that google is doing that there was a curricular they were google shut down the entire internet for 40 minutes this is reported by the Guardian Google did not deny it they shut down half of the internet in japan and again they acknowledged it we are talking about a company with so much power who gave google the power to shut down the internet where did that come from. The Adoption Rate of smartphones is so profound that that is the information tool and so how people get their information what they believe what they dont use i think the project for the next. I think we are increasingly moving to an era where people are saying we need to take better care of our digital environments. And we need to take better care of our digital selves and what that means is being aware of what we are putting into our computers but more importantly when our computers in our devices are putting into us we are sharing information with them increasingly Sensitive Information the amount of data that they had on us 15 years ago is relatively small now its amazingly complex and they never forget any other. Letters or berg i remember well your 1st visit to capitol hill back in 2000 and. You spoke to the Senate Republican to test or switch chair you said back then that facebook would always prefer. Is that still your objective. Senator yes there will always be a version of facebook that is free it is our mission to try to help connect everyone around the world into bring the world closer together in order to do that we believe that we need to offer a service that everyone can afford and were committed to doing that how do you sustain a Business Model and what use are your service. Center we run out its. The end of the day there is no free lunch especially when it comes to social media and the internet the entire in common is literally based off of surveillance and thats something that we really need think long and hard is that a sustainable Business Model to protect our privacy and protect our families and protect our kids moving forward what we need to think about is how can we continue with a light touch deregulated approach but one where people have the information they need to know whats being done and whether they consent to it or not and so thats why i think we need to have a really big focus on transparency on privacy on a level Playing Field across the board so that people understand whats happening and they can make decisions in a way that theyre not able to very clearly right now. It isnt obvious that regulators are fast enough to keep up with the tech world. To be 5 years behind the game thats like a 100 years thats like wrestling with victorian england to know it seems to me that it would be better in many ways if there were multiple competing Search Engines and if there were multiple facebooks because at least then wed have a diversity of ethical conundrums instead of this totalitarian conundrum that we have right now my concern at this point is that i dont think a lot of people and government really fully understand the extent of the problem i dont think they really understand what theyre up against i mean these are massive massive technological changes and theyre all happening in parallel we have no idea what the consequences of that are going to be so my concern fundamentally is that these machines will reflect us ethically and that should be frightening because i wouldnt say that our ethical house is particularly in order so theyre going to magnify what we are. Thats making the presumption that the thing that were building will be a good thing and i dont think that it will be a good thing because it will reflect us if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and Fair Election doesnt exist there have to be in place numerous safeguards to make sure not only that they dont exercise these powers but that they cant exercise these powers the internet blogs to all of us it does not belong to google or facebook i mean we have empirical evidence that googles participating in selfserving bios in a way that directly harms consumers as a society as a democracy any time you have concentration of the levels they are in the information sector it should be concerning because they really are now more powerful than governments they are form of regulator but they are our private regulator with no democratic accountability i cant believe in a system in which the power is separate from the people were talking about innocent. Arrogant people in my opinion who think of themselves as gods. And who really want to have a complete hold over humanity and these are basically big mind control machines and mind control machines theyre really good at controlling minds its going to be harder and harder to fight them if we dont do so i would say you know as soon as possible though the more rope we give them the sooner we are all hanged. I dont believe our species counts are vive unless we fix this we cannot have a society in which if 2 people wish to communicate the only way that can happen is if its financed by a 3rd person who wishes to manipulate them. The traditional notion of totalitarianism was resting on the premise or the idea that a government would try to achieve total control over your life and they would do it by using the might and muscle of government to do so under compulsion all today we essentially have a totalitarian force in the world and that is these Large Tech Companies but guess what they didnt use stormtroopers they didnt use the gulag they didnt use the arrest of Political Prisoners to accomplish it we all opted in to do it ourselves we volunteered for this arrangement and we live in a world today where these tech giants have a level of control and an ability to manipulate us that Stalin Mao Hitler and mussolini could only have dreamed of the power and we are essentially trusting these Large Tech Companies to make the right and good decision for us i for 1 am not prepared to see that level of power to these individuals. In the meantime. Its the companys fault change delete your account so ok. The. 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