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I feel like it's scary what we've reached. Giving all our browsing history and activity to a surveillance company.
by kakaorka 8y ago
I feel like it's scary what we've reached. Giving all our browsing history and activity to a surveillance company.
- datalist 8y agoTrue, once more we have reached and voluntarily embraced browser monoculture.
- gaius 8y agoChrome is a data collection app with a built in browser
- mavhc 8y agoDon't enable that feature then
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoHuman beings are pretty good, on the whole, about tradeoffs. For most people, the information they're trading away is only theoretically valuable, but the products they receive in return have very tangible value.
- xg15 8y agoI agree - because humans generally seem to be pretty bad at including more than the immediate here and now in their tradeoff calculations. I'd see this as an argument why stuff like privacy can't be left to individual choice.
- tehduder9 8y agoSo if I didn't voluntarily giving up my privacy for something (an invaluable product to use) you wouldn't let me? Why? It's none of your business what I desire from my personal privacy.
- xg15 8y agoBecause your personal valuation is likely very off-the-mark because the consequences of that action may lie far into the future or may actually happen to others and not yourself. Also, if the product is really "invaluable" to you (e.g. you have no choice but to use it) then your choice to give up privacy wouldn't be voluntary either. (Edit: added first paragraph)
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago> humans generally seem to be pretty bad at including more than the immediate here and now in their tradeoff calculations I disagree with this assessment. What human beings are generally bad at is including the concerns of other people in their calculations. The probability that the information Google, Facebook, etc are gathering on them will ever be used to cause them significant harm is incredibly small. While one can imagine some future holocaust scenario enabled by it, no reasonable person would see that as likely from our current vantage point. The people affected by the way it is currently used, or the ways it is likely to be used in the future, are in a minuscule minority (and any competent authority wishing to abuse this information will no doubt endeavor to keep it that way). > I'd see this as an argument why stuff like privacy can't be left to individual choice. Is for your own good comrade!
- xg15 8y agoYes, it's not like China is implementing a social credid system right now that shows how you can use that information to fundamentally restrict individual freedom.
- joel_ms 8y agoMakes me think that we've already made the same mistake with fossil fuels and climate change :/ (Tangible benefit: material wealth and prosperity. Theoretically valuable: a balanced ecosystem) (not to start an off-topic discussion about that, but just an observed parallell)