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Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Biography

Activist

Eli Pariser is an activist known for his advocacy in the areas of internet privacy and transparency. Born on December 17, 1980, he has gained recognition for his work in these fields.

Eli Pariser is an activist known for his advocacy in the areas of internet privacy and transparency. Born on December 17, 1980, he has gained recognition for his work in these fields.

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“Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark territory of the unknown.”

Curiosity Closemindedness

Book:The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You

Source: The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You

“1973 Fair Information Practices: - You should know who has your personal data, what data they have, and how it is used. - You should be able to prevent information collected about you for one purpose from being used for others. - You should be able to correct inaccurate information about you. - Your data should be secure. ..while it's illegal to use Brad Pitt's image to sell a watch without his permission, Facebook is free to use your name to sell one to your friends.”

Internet Internet Privacy Data Mining Internet Security Online Security

Book:The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You

Source: The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You

“There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.”

World Want Two Self Helping Term Media Balance Citizens Strikes Two Things Short Term Bothered Good Citizen

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“There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.”

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“Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.”

Self Whole Problem Able Interest Common Steps Democracy Addresses Self Interest

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“We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the world. What it's looking like increasingly is that the Web is connecting us back to ourselves.”

World Together Young Internet Excited Connected Connecting Geek Maine

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“I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.”

Thinking Want Citizens Easier What You Want Good Citizen

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“If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.”

Ifs Knows Views Scientist Invisible Links Autism Google Site Feedback Vaccines Loops

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“It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous. Because to make good decisions, you need to have a clear view of what all the options are.”

Needs Feels Decision Views Clear Dangerous Good Decision Clear View

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“If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.”

Ifs Writing Shots Pressure Headlines

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“Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.”

People Way Should Stories Jobs Interest Interesting Great Job

Author:Eli Pariser

“We've always believed that popular culture and populist politics go hand in hand. It's an honor to be working with so many respected and influential artists, and we're indebted to them for having the courage to speak out at a time when our country so desperately needs change. For our 2.5 million members and far beyond, the Vote for Change tour will have a seismic cultural impact.”

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“More voices means less trust in any given voice.”

Mean Given Voice

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“Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.”

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“Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.”

Inspiration Motivation Internet Conservative Links Noticing Consulting Edited

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“Your filter bubble is your own personal, unique universe of information that you live in online. What's in your filter bubble depends on who you are, and it depends on what you do. But you don't decide what gets in - and more importantly, you don't see what gets edited out.”

Inspiration Motivation Universe Information Depends Internet Unique Who You Are Online Bubbles Filters Edited

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“The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.”

Thinking Want Needs Inspiration Motivation Internet

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“We really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to new ideas and new people and different perspectives. And it's not going to do that if it leaves us all isolated in a Web of one.”

People Ifs Needs Ideas Different Inspiration Together Motivation Perspective Internet Isolated Introducing New Ideas Different Perspective

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“In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now.”

Way Together Information Internet Right Now Happenings Flow Controlled Editors Gatekeepers

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“Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with.”

Hands Might Company Amount Enormous Data Daily Life Bargains Large Companies Personalization

Book:The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

Source: The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

“The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.”

Our Lives Starting Ads Algorithms

Book:The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

Source: The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

“Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.”

Way Kind Interest Watches Computer Mirrors One Way Observers Reflecting Clicks

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“Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days”

Ifs Humans Two Space Five Communication Creating Billions Likes Data Dawn Two Days Eric Storage Schmidt Storage Space

Book:The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

Source: The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

“By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.”

World Moving Understanding Attention Flashlights Understanding You Perimeter Constantly Moving

Book:The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

Source: The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

“A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.”

Author:Eli Pariser

“It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren't.”

People World Self Interest Virtue Complexes Customers Exposed Self Interest Civics Loops Civic Virtue

Book:The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

Source: The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

“In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.”

World Important Attention Issues Complexes Personalized

Book:The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

Source: The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

“To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.”

People Ifs Important Bigs Able Difficult Impossible Identity Citizens Shoes Rooted Big Picture Good Citizen

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“In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the Party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive. Now it's our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.”

Needs Years Lasts Party Millions Campaigns Corporate Cash Last Year Grassroots Contributors

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“We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.”

Author:Eli Pariser

About the Author

Born: December 17, 1980
Known for: Activist
Quotes: 30

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The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We ThinkRelated source material

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