The Tracks of My Peers

There’s probably something bad about feeling the constant compulsion to share your location, photos, experiences and thoughts with everyone you know on social media. And there’s definitely something bad about that information being shared well beyond those confines. From WaPo: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore.

+ “A ‘Hippocratic oath’ for software designers would stop the exploitation of people’s psychological vulnerabilities.” Tristan Harris believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He’s determined to make it stop.

+ The Atlantic: How social media is being weaponized across the world. (And they mean ISIS, not US presidential campaign.)

+ A Saudi teen flirted online with a woman in California and ended up in jail.