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I find the information empowering and it doesn't cause undue fear in me. To the contrary, these articles help form a collective vocabulary to understand the wor
by oil25 8y ago
I find the information empowering and it doesn't cause undue fear in me. To the contrary, these articles help form a collective vocabulary to understand the world around us, especially the less overt parts. It is so much deeper than "corporations have access to my phone" - it tears at the very fabric fabric of our society and human experience more generally.
Here is a quote from the article itself which I think is meaningful to your comment: "There’s nothing inevitable about technology or capitalism. The idea that digital surveillance is inevitable – that’s just invalid, and we can’t let them get away with it."
- mastrsushi 8y agoSee that's the thing. why does it need to be something theyre "getting away with"? I don't think it's wrong corporations collect personal data. Anything to bring marketing closer to consumer relations is better.
- oil25 8y agoNot nearly all personal data collection is obvious and even less of it is of tangible benefit to users. I'm with you about voluntary collection, but when the last several years' of history is replete with spying, coercion, back-doors, leaks, lying by corporations, privacy anti-patterns in software, and general lack of any meaningful regulation to reign it all in ... we have to be more critical.