Reads: Location Tracking, Social Media Love/Hate & More

By Ravie Lakshmanan 12.12.18

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...

Where Is the Boundary Between Your Phone and Your Mind? - The Guardian
Inside China's Audacious Global Propaganda Campaign - The Guardian
Ghosts of Highway 20 - Oregon Live
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret - The New York Times
Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook? - The New York Times
An Elephant Crackup? - The New York Times
Should We Be Worried About Computerized Facial Recognition? - The New Yorker
Yes, You Can Rent White Doves for a Wedding - Topic
Art and Algorithms: Cold Discovery - Real Life
The Race to Understand Antarctica's Most Terrifying Glacier - Wired
The Truth About Facebook's Fake Quest to Connect the World - Wired
Sorry Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook isn't a "positive force" - Ars Technica
How Uber Will Become an Ad Company, Starting With Eats Pool - TechCrunch
Tech's Invasion of Our Privacy Made Us More Paranoid in 2018 - CNET
TIME Person of the Year: The Guardians and the War on Truth - Time
Is the Government Really in Control of Its Algorithms? - Medium
A Decade After the iPhone, There's Still No Good Smartphone for Kids - Medium
Why I Won't Upgrade My Phone Until It Can Turn Into a Magic Pony - Medium
You're Hardwired to Love Social Media - Medium
The Psychological Toll of Becoming an Instagram Influencer - Medium
IRL Ads Are Taking Scary Inspiration From Social Media - Medium

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