Showing posts with label influencing soldiers’ real-world actions through social media manipulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label influencing soldiers’ real-world actions through social media manipulation. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy; Wired, February 18, 2019

Issie Lapowsky, Wired; NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy

"For the military group that OK'd the research, the experiment effectively acted as a drill. But for the rest of us—and certainly for the social media platforms implicated in the report—the researchers hope it will serve as concrete evidence of why a fuzzy concept like privacy matters and what steps can be taken to protect it."