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I tried to get my father to grasp that this isn't the 50s. These aren't file cabinet with dubios ability to find info ever again and massive amounts of space re

I tried to get my father to grasp that this isn't the 50s. These aren't file cabinet with dubios ability to find info ever again and massive amounts of space required to store. Data today will be sucked in and may sit but eventually will get indexed and become searchable in seconds. The percentage of your life represented in this data is only getting higher, and collection of all at the current rate will be ubiquitous. A good example is a authoritarian could take power and decide to reducate any one posting comments not espousing the ideals of the ruler in power. The data from the past couple years would build you a nice list for your next sessionnof your reeducation camp fun.

HeckFeck 7y ago
>A good example is a authoritarian could take power and decide to reducate any one posting comments not espousing the ideals of the ruler in power. This already happens on a horrendous scale in China. Since we're buying pretty much everything from there, will it be long before they gladly sell us mass surveillance infrastructure? >The data from the past couple years would build you a nice list for your next sessionnof your reeducation camp fun. Imagine a sinister big data implementation of the ironic punishments in Dante. It's possible should the political will arise. There's already enough contempt for privacy in Western governments, it's not too hard to think of what's on the horizon.
- netsharc 7y ago
  > Imagine a sinister big data implementation of the ironic punishments in Dante. A big "church" with many followers in Hollywood already make you take a detailed personality survey and use the answers to sow doubt within yourself during the following "interview". So yeah, it's probably very easy for someone with more data.