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> tracking will continue until people regulate it How are you going to stop tracking? Whenever you interact with a business, online or offline, you're supplyi
by studentrob 7y ago
> tracking will continue until people regulate it
How are you going to stop tracking?
Whenever you interact with a business, online or offline, you're supplying information that can be tracked.
- antisemiotic 7y agoI think there's a difference between gathering information that's necessary for the service at hand (giving your IP address to a server, or your current location to a cell phone network) and milking the user for all identifying information that can be gathered (asking for the user's gender to create a shop account, browser fingerprinting by scanning plugins and canvas hashing, etc).
- studentrob 7y agoRegardless, how is breaking up Google going to stop such tracking? I've asked this question twice now. We can't just break up companies because they collect data. That's not anti-trust.
- antisemiotic 7y agoWell that's a question for SomeOldThrow, I don't know how breaking up Google would help either.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoYou’d need something like the GDPR I imagine. While tracking and anti-trust are only loosely coupled, both are symptoms of an anti-social company.