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How modern privacy violations would look like 35 years ago
- drdaeman 9y ago> In the evening you go to the library to return a book. They have a list of book suggestions ready that fits your taste suspiciously well. Hah! If that'd be true... I strongly suspect modern recommendation engines have absolutely no clues about the plot/tropes/character traits/content in general and only operate on score correlations and basic genre tags. Because more than half of the suggestions I got for books, movies and games (and I willingly fed the data!) weren't something that fit my tastes well. Maybe just remotely. (I must admit I have crappy tastes, though.)
- jacquesm 9y agoAnd of course they keep on recommending books you already read.
- wlkr 9y agoWow, I have never seen the ACLU pizza video [0] (linked in the comments) before but it's fantastic. It hits all the points I try to explain to people about the importance of privacy in a much more succinct and clear way. I'm surprised it has so few views. [0]: https://www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza https://www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza
- echotangowhisky 9y agoThat's a good video, I'd never seen it either, but I'd like to paint an opposing pictures: Me: calling a pizza place I've never ordered from before Hi, I'd like my usual. Pizza Place: Sure! Our pizza delivery drone will drop it off in 20 minutes. That's the whole conversation. They have my order history from every pizza place ever, so they know what I want. My credit card number is on file, so they can just charge that. (Credit fraud is non-existent because of 24/7 surveillance and chargebacks). They have my GPS information so they know where to deliver the pizza. Add in a little bit of AI and cooperation between the different fast food vendors, and I could skip the conversation entirely. My favorite pizza would just show up when I get hungry! This is still creepy, but it's a much better future than one where a pizza shop operator is catty about my beach body.