4 ms·
You shouldn't expect privacy when sending information to someone else's server. Google records your searches, pg monitors voting, and TiVo knows what you're wa
by eb 19y ago
You shouldn't expect privacy when sending information to someone else's server.
Google records your searches, pg monitors voting, and TiVo knows what you're watching on TV.
The data associated with a user is valuable in improving the product and makes for interesting research. If you want anonymity, you have to explicitly try to be discreet.
- dcurtis 19y agoWhen I use MSN, I'm sending data to the other person through the Microsoft tunnel; if they clone the data while it's going through the tunnel and save it for their own use, that's kind of a breach of my trust. I don't expect them to NOT do this, but I still believe it's uncool. Also, there's a huge difference between recording my personal conversations and recording my movies, searches, or voting habits.
- 0x44 19y agothere's a huge difference between recording my personal conversations and recording my movies, searches, or voting habits. It isn't a personal conversation if it's going through an intermediary.
- dcurtis 19y agoWhy not? I can have a personal conversation with someone else verbally over the air, but I can't have a personal conversation with someone else over bits?
- 0x44 19y agoYou're not having a personal conversation with someone else over bits, you're having that conversation with someone else through an intermediary, specifically the hardware of your respective ISPs and any other third parties between whom the packets route. That isn't so much a personal conversation, as a very accurate game of Telephone. As an aside, I apologize for not responding sooner, I did not know how to find my old posts.