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This is my biggest concern about present and future technology. For example, many car manufacturers are sharing real-time sensor data from their vehicles, inclu
by nextos 7y ago
This is my biggest concern about present and future technology. For example, many car manufacturers are sharing real-time sensor data from their vehicles, including GPS, with third parties. There's no clear opt out. Is it anonymized? Can it get misused? Sadly yes.
The freedom and transparency we got from PCs where you can always know what is going on, with some caveats, is missing from all other platforms. And it's really worrying.
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- arminiusreturns 7y agoIf we let them they will do it to PC's eventually too. We have to fight for our rights. I think cell phones have normalized it for far too many people.
- mtsr 7y agoWhat do you mean, eventually? You haven't followed the Windows analytics debacle?
- stallmanite 7y agoWin10 analytics (and forced updates) is what finally pushed me to exclusively using linux after many years of dual-booting. There are still choices thankfully (for now).
- arminiusreturns 7y agoWe still have gnu/linux for the time being. I went linux only many years ago and have loved every minute of it.
- Silhouette 7y agoSince the mandatory telemetry in Windows 10 (and the backports to Windows 7 onwards if you trusted Microsoft and installed their recommended updates) we don't even have that transparency on PCs, sadly. But I agree, it's a serious problem. The abuse has become so widespread that I am now in favour of heavyweight statutory regulation and severe penalties for violations. I don't see any other way we come back from this situation now. Competition in the market has utterly failed.
- iforgotpassword 7y agoIf you really care, use Linux.
- Silhouette 7y agoThat's great unless you need software that is not available on Linux. Not all businesses have that choice, but they might still care about privacy and security.
- iforgotpassword 7y agoTrue, but at least for personal use you could make that sacrifice of replacing and re-learning stuff as much as possible. Tbh, from an employee's POV I don't even care that much if my company wants to take that risk.
- Silhouette 7y agoI'm the person (one of them) responsible for my own businesses, so I look at things a bit differently. It's on me and my colleagues if we don't have proper security in place, or we violate confidentiality agreements or NDAs or GDPR or other privacy/data protection rules. Looking at the amount of essential software and equipment that is now actively hostile to even basic security and privacy, when you're talking about things like your networking gear or your operating systems or your everyday development tools betraying you, it's now all but impossible to buy new stuff and still be professional about safeguarding privacy and security now, and it shouldn't be. It's going to hurt a lot of people sooner or later, probably sooner, and it's going to cost a lot of businesses a lot of money too.
- Xelbair 7y agoIt doesn't matter - there is always Management Engine in intel CPU's and equivalent in AMD and ARM.
- nextos 7y agoI brought PCs as an example because it's a relatively open hardware platform and you can run Linux or BSD and have an imperfect control of everything that is going on. On phones, things have gotten much worse. Although you can flash a relatively open ROM in case of Android, good luck controlling what the baseband does behind the scenes. And if we talk about cars and other devices like smart watches, there's often zero openness.