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> there are too many people Oh please. They can probably harvest the lot. It'll be some algorithm that deems you worthy or otherwise or gets you on an "of in
by anexprogrammer 10y ago
> there are too many people
Oh please. They can probably harvest the lot. It'll be some algorithm that deems you worthy or otherwise or gets you on an "of interest" list. Let's keep "personal surveillance" for '50s spy movies and Banksy murals.
More generally, what about the chilling effect on legal and legitimate conversation?
- jeremysmyth 10y agoIt'll be some algorithm that deems you worthy or otherwise or gets you on an "of interest" list. ...or your association with "Occupy" or some other political protest movement that someone in power disagrees with, or that your wife bullied some politician's wife for two weeks in school, or that your interfering neighbour with a petty dislike of how you landscape your garden works as a government clerk and can access your data. There are many reasons why some individual might want to know private things about some other individual. When individuals with some tiny (or vast) power want to wield it over anyone else, especially when they can do it with little oversight, it's very tempting. That "the government" has access to my private information does not mean it's blind and faceless. It's made up of people with complex motivations.