Some 12,000 hackers are challenging the power of Google, Facebook and Youtube to filter information and shape users’ view of the world. One of them demonstrated how to hack into VW’s cheating software.
The four-day event, which kicked off on Sunday, has the slogan “Gated Communities” – symbolizing limitations on transparency and free speech in the digital word. The organizers want to point out that users view the world as filtered by Google, Youtube, Facebook – and therefore see only part of the world.
“Google News decides what is newsworthy, YouTube decides what you may watch, Apple decides which apps are available in the AppStore” speaker at the congress Dirk Engling said, according to the German Spiegel magazine. For the full article click here
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