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NYCLU: City’s Public Wi-Fi Raises Privacy Concerns
- chatmasta 11y agoIf you don't like it, don't use it. Any "privacy concerns" regarding an opt-in service are dubious at best. Also, where's the uproar about literally every single ISP, doing the same things on a much wider scale?
- mc808 11y agoCorrection: If you don't like it, then don't use it for as long as your attempts to raise awareness and propose improvements continue to fail. But don't give up.
- kafkaesq 11y agoIf you don't like it, don't use it. That's the thing -- lots of lower-income people still don't have (reliable, high-bandwidth) wifi in their homes and schools. So if the city provides something for free -- and they want to move up in the world -- they pretty much have to use it.
- notduncansmith 11y agoWorth noting that while the article tries to paint CityBridge as the company behind this, LinkNYC is a project by Intersection, which is funded by Alphabet.
- kafkaesq 11y agoVery worth noting, indeed.
- kyboren 11y agoI'll just leave this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8621791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8621791