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As a Vizio tv owner who will probably by more Vizio tvs... Meh. I just assume every electronic device I own is spying on my habits and selling the data to whome
by beat 10y ago
As a Vizio tv owner who will probably by more Vizio tvs... Meh. I just assume every electronic device I own is spying on my habits and selling the data to whomever. Glad to see them busted on this, because I want to see the line for this stuff set as far back as possible, to be the most trouble and risk possible for businesses.
But yeah, you can't really expect corporate ethics or laws to protect you.
- xenithorb 10y agoNothing to hide, huh
- shuntress 10y agoWriting off the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is like writing off the right to free speech because you have nothing to say.
- beat 10y agoIt has nothing to do with whether I have something to hide or not. I don't want them collecting data without my permission. But I assume they will do so. And to the post comparing this to violent crime... um, no. It's not the same. I don't need to be paranoid and assume that everyone is a violent criminal. I do, however, need to be conscious it's possible.
- gph 10y ago>But yeah, you can't really expect corporate ethics or laws to protect you. Sure, in a general sense you can't expect human morality or police to protect you all the time either. Do you just assume everyone you meet is a violent pathological criminal? That would be a very paranoid point of view to maintain. The point of the law and in particular this ruling is to be enough of a deterrent to dissuade most actors from doing something bad, thus giving you some level of protection. Cynics look at these types of cases and conclude like you have, that laws and ethics won't protect you. But if we never saw these types of cases come up it would be more likely that no one is enforcing the law, not that everyone is obeying it.