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And all they had to sacrifice was personal privacy!

by retox 10y ago

AckSyn 10y ago
Like all great futuristic advances we've seen in the last two decades that REALLY put us into the "we're living in the future" category, there's a plus and negative side. I love that I can wear a watch that doubles as a phone, health monitor, gps/mapping, mp3 player, etc. The flip side of there being a loss of privacy would both be technological (weak or no security in the device itself or the apps and services it uses) and political (government saying "give me all the data"). This cry of "but my privacy!" is nothing more than a useless complaint, and does nothing to address the problem. We as citizens and consumers of such great tech NEED to demand better device security as well as political reform. Changes in how things are done and why. So be picky about which tech you buy and politicians you vote. Be picky with your time, money, votes. Don't, however, waste time on comments that do nothing to address the problem. That includes providing no information to further advance your ideology: privacy. No product endorsements to sway us into purchasing or supporting something which WILL keep your private info out of nosy third-party hands, or info about politicians or policy we should be aware of? That would be a pointless comment when you obviously care about something.
clock_tower 10y ago
I don't carry a smartphone, I don't have a Facebook account, and I use NoScript, so I have a certain amount of privacy online; but there's not much expectation of privacy in public places. (Not zero, evidently -- Google blurs out faces on Street View, for example -- but not much.) And in this case, Google's not revealing personal data at all, they're finding and reporting industrial problems; their wide-ranging, unaccountable cyberstalking powers are very creepy, but this time they're being used for good.

8 ms·

And all they had to sacrifice was personal privacy!

by retox 10y ago

And all they had to sacrifice was personal privacy!

AckSyn 10y ago
Like all great futuristic advances we've seen in the last two decades that REALLY put us into the "we're living in the future" category, there's a plus and negative side. I love that I can wear a watch that doubles as a phone, health monitor, gps/mapping, mp3 player, etc. The flip side of there being a loss of privacy would both be technological (weak or no security in the device itself or the apps and services it uses) and political (government saying "give me all the data"). This cry of "but my privacy!" is nothing more than a useless complaint, and does nothing to address the problem. We as citizens and consumers of such great tech NEED to demand better device security as well as political reform. Changes in how things are done and why. So be picky about which tech you buy and politicians you vote. Be picky with your time, money, votes. Don't, however, waste time on comments that do nothing to address the problem. That includes providing no information to further advance your ideology: privacy. No product endorsements to sway us into purchasing or supporting something which WILL keep your private info out of nosy third-party hands, or info about politicians or policy we should be aware of? That would be a pointless comment when you obviously care about something.
clock_tower 10y ago
I don't carry a smartphone, I don't have a Facebook account, and I use NoScript, so I have a certain amount of privacy online; but there's not much expectation of privacy in public places. (Not zero, evidently -- Google blurs out faces on Street View, for example -- but not much.) And in this case, Google's not revealing personal data at all, they're finding and reporting industrial problems; their wide-ranging, unaccountable cyberstalking powers are very creepy, but this time they're being used for good.