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Let's start gathering statistics on how many times people open their refrigerator, or use the toilet, or take a shower. What's more concerning about these data
by mikegerwitz 11y ago
Let's start gathering statistics on how many times people open their refrigerator, or use the toilet, or take a shower.
What's more concerning about these data aren't these specific numbers, but what other data that implies that they have, what they can do with it, and what they can infer about you from it. Privacy and anonymity aren't (reasonably) possible on a Windows 10 operating system.
Any entity knowing that I have even turned on my PC---without explicit action to notify someone of such, such as posting this message or sending e-mail---is a privacy violation.
- sz4kerto 11y agoYou bet that the smart-toilet manufacturers will track the usage. :/
- ourmandave 11y agoMy wife tracks how many times I don't put the lid down.
- cm2187 11y agoWhat I would like to know if how much of this tracking is not blocked by installing something like Spybot's Anti-Beacon (https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/ https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/) and using a Local Account. If all it takes is to install a similar tool when I buy a new machine, it's not a big deal. There are many other tools I need to install anyway (winrar, etc).
- andrewchambers 11y agoyou don't need winrar, 7zip is far better.
- talmand 11y agoYou don't need 7zip, it's much better to unpack manually.
- michaelbuddy 11y agocan 7-zip reassemble those split rar files where you get r01, r02 and so on?
- soylentcola 11y agoYep. I just ran across one of those .rars the other day and was surprised that it wouldn't decompress properly. Then I realized I hadn't tried to unzip one of those on that particular computer in a long time and my version of 7zip was just really out of date. Updated to the current version and it worked fine.
- jinst8gmi 11y ago> Let's start gathering statistics on how many times people open their refrigerator, or use the toilet, or take a shower. Just think of the targeted advertising opportunities based on toilet usage statistics!
- sageikosa 11y agoThat can be garnered from purchase data, at least on a household level.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoHow is that data currently collected? Are you referring to store loyalty cards?
- sageikosa 11y agoJust saying that it can be garnered, I have no idea on whether it is used, although store loyalty cards obviously play into targeted coupons you receive at the checkout.
- jinst8gmi 11y agoYou'd want the data before the purchases were made in order to influence the purchases (e.g. medicine...).
- serge2k 11y agoAssumption being the data can be traced back to a user.
- petke 11y agoSuch statistics would be very useful to society. Tracking people as a group to figure out how they behave. Its only when the tracking targets individuals that it get creepy. "New York'ers goes to the toilet x times a day" is fine vs "John Doe goes to the toilet x times a day" is not.
- mikegerwitz 11y agoI'm not arguing that they aren't useful---they are, and quite fascinating. But they should always be opt-in.
- rasz_pl 11y ago>Let's start gathering statistics on how many times people open their refrigerator, or use the toilet, or take a shower. three strong startup/KS ideas right there