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Privacy _is_ a binary thing, either something is private or it is not. There is of course a difference between _everything_ and _nothing_ being private, but on

by tpxl 7y ago

Privacy _is_ a binary thing, either something is private or it is not. There is of course a difference between _everything_ and _nothing_ being private, but once _something_ ceases being private it ceases being private forever. If you let some company, which will do who-knows-what, record voice in your house, you no longer can have a private conversation in your house, since the company will record them, possibly listen to them, and ultimately probably leak them. You completely lost that part of privacy, without for example losing privacy regarding visuals. >What's key is they should be able to prescribe the limits as the poster above has described. We should be able to severely punish companies that lie about their behaviors, because that would make it impossible to make informed trade-offs about how much privacy we are truly giving up. I do agree there need to be more regulations around this (yay GDPR), although even if you kill the company dead, you cannot un-ring a bell.

ncallaway 7y ago
> Privacy _is_ a binary thing, either something is private or it is not. I strongly disagree. If I tell something to my attorney it is still relatively private, but obviously not if I had never told anyone. If I have a deep secret and I tell my significant other that secret asking for their confidence, it is still relatively private but not as private if I had never told anyone. I agree that, if you absolutely need total control of information, then the only way to 100% guarantee that privacy is to tell no one ever. But I think being absolutionist when it comes to privacy expectations means you may have a very hard time convincing others of your opinions. > If you let some company, which will do who-knows-what, record voice in your house This is exactly the point we are arguing. We should be able to find out from the company what they will do, and if they deviate from promises they make they should be held accountable. I should be able to let some company record my voice in my house, with strict conditions on what it will do.

by tpxl 7y ago

ncallaway 7y ago

> Privacy _is_ a binary thing, either something is private or it is not. I strongly disagree. If I tell something to my attorney it is still relatively private, but obviously not if I had never told anyone. If I have a deep secret and I tell my significant other that secret asking for their confidence, it is still relatively private but not as private if I had never told anyone. I agree that, if you absolutely need total control of information, then the only way to 100% guarantee that privacy is to tell no one ever. But I think being absolutionist when it comes to privacy expectations means you may have a very hard time convincing others of your opinions. > If you let some company, which will do who-knows-what, record voice in your house This is exactly the point we are arguing. We should be able to find out from the company what they will do, and if they deviate from promises they make they should be held accountable. I should be able to let some company record my voice in my house, with strict conditions on what it will do.