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Otherwise, users’ expectations will become disconnected from what the company can deliver.
Service providers should understand that their
users
will expect the transparency, respect, and recognition that are fundamental to any relationship.
They undermine users’ decision-making capacity.
But this requires treating drug
users
not as criminals to be incarcerated, but as patients to be cared for.
When the policy approach shifts from criminal repression to public health, drug
users
are more open to seeking treatment.
But it is time to recognize that repressive policies towards drug users, rooted as they are in prejudice, fear, and ideology, may be no less a threat to liberty.
Like all Uber drivers, they are “monitored” by users, who evaluate them through the app after each ride.
If MSN Spaces did not censor its Chinese blogs, Microsoft argues, the Great Chinese Firewall would simply be programmed to block Chinese Internet
users
from accessing its service.
Software prevents
users
from posting politically sensitive words, and provocative content that gets past the automated controls is frequently removed.
In the long run, this does not bode well for their global reputations, which depend on users’ trust in the openness and independence of their products and services.
This dramatically reduces financial-service providers’ costs, and makes their services more convenient and accessible for
users
– especially low-income
users
in remote locations.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before the US Senate did little to shore up public confidence in a company that traffics in its users’ personal data.
As a result, “more than a thousand companies are now involved in a digital information value chain that harvests data from any online activity and delivers targeted content to online or mobile
users
within roughly 36 seconds of their entry into the digital realm.”
“‘Data management platforms’ such as those operated by Acxiom or Oracle BlueKai possess thousands of personal attributes and socio-psychological profiles about hundreds of millions of users.”
Singapore’s social-media startup Bubble Motion (recently rebranded as Bubbly) generated more than 20 million
users
in its first two years – nearly double the number that Facebook or Twitter accrued in the same period in their history.
Major global telecommunication companies – such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Skype – have assembled secret stockpiles of personal information about their users, which they share with the NSA.
Soon, the operational logic of AI decision-making systems will be inscrutable not just to their users, but also to their creators.
Some
users
capture disproportionate gains, while others fail to benefit.
China has the largest number of Internet users, but its “Great Fire Wall” has created barriers with parts of the outside world.
The Internet revolution of the past two decades has contributed something like 8% of global GDP and brought three billion
users
online, narrowing digital, physical, economic, and educational divides.
The Commission concluded that sustaining unhindered innovation will require that the Internet’s standards are openly developed and available; that all
users
develop better digital “hygiene” to discourage hackers; that security and resilience be at the core of system design (rather than an afterthought, as they currently are); that governments not require third parties to compromise encryption; that countries agree not to attack the Internet’s core infrastructure; and that governments mandate liability and compel transparent reporting of technological problems to provide a market-based insurance industry to enhance the IOT’s security.
Underlying the backlash against Big Tech has been the sense that we are all becoming proletarianized
users.
To repudiate society’s property rights over the returns to capital that we, as users, have created, Big Tech’s defenders invoke users’ large consumer surplus (the sum we would be prepared to pay for access to free services such as Gmail and Google Maps).
Over the course of two years, an estimated 3,000-10,000 alleged petty criminals – many of them supposedly drug
users
– were executed without trial.
Both Suharto and Thaksin were eventually overthrown, but not because they orchestrated the killings of suspected petty criminals and drug
users.
One explanation for this commonality is that launching a public campaign against a powerless, unpopular group like drug
users
is an easy way for a leader to mask other shortcomings.
One of the alliance’s founders, ANT Financial Services has a mobile-payments platform with 450 million
users
in China alone.
The organization is now working with UNEP to offer an experimental “green energy” app that rewards
users
for reduced carbon use.
Automated or otherwise technology-enabled services can increase profit margins for companies, while representing for
users
cheaper, more convenient, or more reliable options than those produced exclusively by humans.
The “free” services offered by social media are based on a profit model in which users’ information and attention are actually the products, which are sold to advertisers.
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