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I have a feeling tech companies would oppose that, because there is little difference between "governments spying on people" like this, and companies tracking p
by mtgx 10y ago
I have a feeling tech companies would oppose that, because there is little difference between "governments spying on people" like this, and companies tracking people everywhere, and building shadow profiles of them (like what Facebook Like and Google Analytics are doing).
This is why Schneier is calling it "surveillance as a business model":
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/surveillance_as_1.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/surveillance_...
- gbin 10y agoI don't agree, the intent has to be taken into account: hackers working at Vupen for example don't work to make a better Google analytics, they work exclusively to circumvent existing protections to expose private data to random third parties whatever the human consequences are as long as they profit from it.
- posterboy 10y ago> the intent has to be taken into account no offense intended, but ...