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Most comments here seem to be missing the point of the title, which is excellent IMO (after Foucault's panoptican, go read Wikipedia if you don't know what it i
by marmaduke 7y ago
Most comments here seem to be missing the point of the title, which is excellent IMO (after Foucault's panoptican, go read Wikipedia if you don't know what it is): just knowing you're being watched (tracked) causes behavior to change usually to conform to social expectations.
- pmoriarty 7y agoFoucault did not come up with the idea of the panopticon. The credit for it goes to Jeremy Bentham, who died nearly a hundred years before Foucault was born.
- marmaduke 7y agooops indeed. I get them mixed up since I learned about them at the same time. I still think panopticlick is an excellent title choice. Isn't it (behavioral modification because of tracking) the real hack at work here, not just how many bits are leaked by your browser?