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Exactly. You've hired a monstrously large entity to snoop on all your activities. This is in no way equivalent to hiring a human person, which has orders of mag
by pacala 8y ago
Exactly. You've hired a monstrously large entity to snoop on all your activities. This is in no way equivalent to hiring a human person, which has orders of magnitude smaller information and economic footprint. An analogy that keeps things in proportion:
'You've effectively hired KGB/CIA to work in your house, the human assistant is just the interface'.
- skybrian 8y agoIt's more like putting your money in a bank. Yes, anything you use the bank for, the bank knows; you don't expect a bank teller to keep anything secret from the rest of the bank. And yes, the government can find out your transactions with a warrant. Still, people do keep their money in banks. Banks are more regulated than Internet companies, though, so maybe there is something to be done there.