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Arguments about the big companies ultimately devolve into whataboutism. But google does this! and Apple did that! And facebook did this! It's frustrating how w
by ntsplnkv2 8y ago
Arguments about the big companies ultimately devolve into whataboutism. But google does this! and Apple did that! And facebook did this!
It's frustrating how we treat publicly traded companies somehow as agents of morality. They aren't and never will be. Isn't it obvious that this needs regulated by a government?
- bilbo0s 8y agoIn fairness, if you're waiting for your government to protect your privacy rights, you're going to be waiting a long time. They have a vested interest in circumventing the privacy of their citizens, (and circumventing the privacy of everyone else' citizens too in fact.) I think the best you'd ever get out of a government is maybe a law that forbids companies from sharing data with anyone EXCEPT the governments themselves. This is kind of what GDPR does, but even that doesn't really have any teeth in it as we're starting to see. No one at all has really stopped hoovering up all the data they can.