Ginny Fahs

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Ginny Fahs

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Upending the surveillance economy @ConsumerReports 👀 Previously Tech Fellow @AspenInstitute, Co-Founder @MovingForwardVC, @Uber & @Harvard.

New York City Katılım Ağustos 2008
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Consumer Reports@ConsumerReports·
🚨 Permission Slip Plus is here! 🚨 Take control of your data like never before. Opt out of data sales, delete old accounts, and keep your digital footprint in check—all with just a few taps. permissionslipcr.com/download.php?E…
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Ginny Fahs@ginnyfahs·
@nikillinit This is @ConsumerReports raison d’être! I'm a product manager there and we've been playing with this "talk to an expert" idea. Starting with AI (of course) but you could imagine a more premium service that comes with X minutes of talking to experts in our labs every year.
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Nikhil Krishnan@nikillinit·
so it's clear the star rating/user generated review system for buying things is broken so people's trust started shifting towards firsthand video reviews of people because you could actually see the product + trust the person itself but even that seems to now feel tainted with many reviewers clearly biased. Which makes me feel like there's opportunity to either 1) do meta-ratings of products based on all the video reviews that people give, potentially even giving more weight to less popular accounts doing the reviews that might be less biased? 2) more "curated" groups of reviewers - get a group of 50 people that are considered experts and verified by the platform in a certain area (e.g. 50 pseudonymous but very good home cooks reviewing kitchen tools). I'd even potentially pay if a site did this across consumer goods or could connect me to one of the reviewers for specific questions, especially if they directly paid the reviewers so they weren't conflicted by sponsorship.
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Ginny Fahs@ginnyfahs·
I just discovered that an op-ed I wrote in my @MovingForwardVC days made an appearance in @AnitaHill's book. Hill is one of my heroes. My article is from 2019, her book from 2021. It's taken me years to find the reference. We never know who our work may be shaping.
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Ginny Fahs@ginnyfahs·
This summer @dmarti & Fengyang Lin joined my team at @ConsumerReports Innovation Lab and designed a study to glimpse the scale of companies' data sharing with Facebook. Working with over 700 consumers, we sourced & analyzed volunteers' Facebook data. Here's what we found👇
The Markup@themarkup

NEW @ConsumerReports study offers a rare look into the scope of Meta’s surveillance. It goes way beyond what most may expect—Meta can know many of the websites you visit and even what you’re doing IRL. mrkup.org/DaFCh

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Don Marti 🐀
Don Marti 🐀@dmarti·
Facebook's "Download Your Information" does provide more info than the law requires—but it doesn't always identify the company using your personal data so that you can actually find them. (Who is “Bm 5 100tkqc nlm" and how did they get my email address?)
The Markup@themarkup

NEW @ConsumerReports study offers a rare look into the scope of Meta’s surveillance. It goes way beyond what most may expect—Meta can know many of the websites you visit and even what you’re doing IRL. mrkup.org/DaFCh

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Grace Gedye@GraceGedye·
"On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies," including little-known data brokers, like LiveRamp, and stores like Home Depot, Walmart, and Macy's, per new research from @ConsumerReports
The Markup@themarkup

NEW @ConsumerReports study offers a rare look into the scope of Meta’s surveillance. It goes way beyond what most may expect—Meta can know many of the websites you visit and even what you’re doing IRL. mrkup.org/DaFCh

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Roger McNamee
Roger McNamee@Moonalice·
The more we know about the business practices of Big Tech, the harder it will be to excuse their behavior. New study by @ConsumerReports and @themarkup shows that thousands of companies monitor each FB user. THOUSANDS! For each of us. This is insane. themarkup.org/privacy/2024/0…
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Consumer Reports@ConsumerReports·
By now, we all know that our online activity is being tracked, but do we know the scale of this surveillance? In partnership with @themarkup, we reviewed the Facebook (FB) data of 709 volunteers & found over 180k companies sent their personal data to FB. consumerreports.org/electronics/pr…
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Consumer Reports@ConsumerReports·
Big news today! 🚀 We’re officially launching @PermissionSlip_ now on both Android and iOS! With a tap, you can send privacy requests to companies, telling them to stop selling your personal data or to delete it entirely. Try #PermissionSlipCR now: permissionslipcr.com
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Consumer Reports Advocacy
Consumer Reports Advocacy@CRAdvocacy·
The Data Rights Protocol makes it easier for companies to honor consumer data rights requests. CR and a consortium of partners just released a stable version of this protocol that is ready for deployment.
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