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Collecting data is not evil. Using data for evil things is evil. Color is not evil. If the secret police used proximity location to capture people and kill them

Collecting data is not evil. Using data for evil things is evil. Color is not evil. If the secret police used proximity location to capture people and kill them, that would be evil. But do you see why that doesn't make Color evil? Having control of how your data is used is nice, but it's not helpful to throw around terms like "evil" for such small things. People get really trigger happy with "1984" on the Internet and sometimes it borders on ridiculous. Orwell didn't have a picture sharing program for handheld computers in mind when he wrote his book.

rapcal 16y ago
And maybe Sequoia didn't have a photo sharing app in mind when they put tens of millions in the game ;-)
burrows 16y ago
Collecting data can definitely be 'evil'. Would you be okay with the government sticking cameras in your house? What about your bathrooms? That's data collection.