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"Putting the not-insignificant issues of privacy aside — in short, many people lured by financial rewards may not fully take in what it means to have a company
by fixermark 8y ago
"Putting the not-insignificant issues of privacy aside — in short, many people lured by financial rewards may not fully take in what it means to have a company fully monitoring all your screen-based activity..."
Not putting those issues aside, it's oddly paternalistic of us to assume people selling their data aren't making a rational trade. Uninformed data collection is one thing, but when we start looking down our noses at folks who are willing to get compensated for letting a big company spy on them consensually? That starts to look a bit "We know what's best for you, and it's not to let megacorporations have your data" elitist.
What if people look at the sum total of what companies have done with big data and like what they see?
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- greglindahl 8y ago"may not fully take in" is pretty clearly NOT making that assumption, so you're doing a lot of name-calling over something that doesn't appear to have been said.
- LarvaFX 8y agoYeah, we see what they did with Trump, yo...https://www.opendemocracy.net/brexitinc/paul-hilder/they-were-planning-on-stealing-election-explosive-new-tapes-reveal-cambridg https://www.opendemocracy.net/brexitinc/paul-hilder/they-wer...
- m0zg 8y agoYeah, this seems _way_ less nefarious than what's going on behind the scenes to everybody else without their consent. At least they get people to consent and compensate them in this case, whereas nobody asks you whether you'd like to be tracked on the internet, and there's no way to turn it all off. If I were to guess, this stuff isn't just "here's a router and we'll send you a check". There should also be a huge and very detailed survey the user needs to fill out so that Google could then correlated that data with similar demographics based on co-visitation. This is also not new. Many years ago at Google I sat directly across the hall from the team that did demographic inference based on (IIRC) Nielsen panel data. I think it's safe to say that _every_ advertising company does this one way or another. Basically at a high level they'd look at where Nielsen-paid tracked folks (about whom they knew everything) went on the web, and then looked at you, and their algorithm would guess your gender, age, income level, education level, etc etc.
- cmsj 8y agoI'm not looking down my nose at anyone who chooses to sell their data, they are very welcome to go and do that on Android. What I am doing though, is keeping watch for erosions of my privacy, and the privacy of the people whose data I have been entrusted with. Don't casually wipe that away with your laissez-faire approach.