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> Don't gather what data you don't need not just because 'it might be useful'. There is literally no /good/ use for such needlessly personalized data, only evil
by tensor 8y ago
> Don't gather what data you don't need not just because 'it might be useful'. There is literally no /good/ use for such needlessly personalized data, only evil.
This is some of the most egregious hyperbole I've ever heard. Why do you think people collect data they don't need at the time? Obviously because it's useful later for things you can't imagine at the time.
So, you claim that the only possible future uses are evil. Which makes you what, able to see the future? You can enumerate unknowns, like the Oracle at Delphi?
- Nasrudith 8y agoI am speaking of public usage of data - there is a significant difference between a nosy neighbor noting your coming and going and the government doing so. One is an annoyance and the other is a very abusable tool. Selective enforcement is a well known tool of power mongers. Point out malfeasance and get hit by harassment by rules ignored by and for everyone else. If a nanite system could help detect high blood pressure oh and it can also cause a stroke by accident or at the push of a button it is not a good system. Just using other methods to get data would be far better. That is how it has no good use - any benefits could be obtained by a far less dangerous way.