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Do you want the local government to have a direct tap into where you spend your time online?
by DaniloDias 6y ago
Do you want the local government to have a direct tap into where you spend your time online?
- adamsea 6y agoAs opposed to AT&T / Comcast? Whoever it is I would like their behavior to be meaningfully regulated under the law.
- nostromo 6y agoYes, as opposed to them. The government can throw you in jail, seize your assets, raise your taxes; AT&T can't. With that extra power comes additional scrutiny.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoPrivate firms have sold sensitive location data to anyone who asks, including borderline criminal bailiffs / 'bountyhunters'. They have left databases exposed for the whole world to see, enabling billions of losses in identitfy theft. And they have suffered basically no consequences. The evidence so far suggests that government agencies are better stewards of personal data.
- DaniloDias 6y agoPrivate firms are less incentivized to snoop on you than nosy small town mayors or city councils. I am too old to hold politicians in high regard.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoCan you backup your claims? Many places have government broadband or phone, has there been abuse on the scale of US carrirers selling location data?
- adamsea 6y agoPersonally I don't trust either which is why I think it's important to have a democratic government, on the federal level, with robust consumer-protection laws, which is progressive, and ideally where it's easy for everyone to vote - voting holiday, etc.
- rtkwe 6y agoHow much of a separation is there in reality though? AFAIK ISPs have continuously handed that kind of data over as a standard matter whenever the government asked and even gave the government direct taps in their network to run as they pleased.
- adamsea 6y ago> The government can throw you in jail, seize your assets, raise your taxes; AT&T can't The irony being that, if there wasn't a government (of the people) enforcing law, then, AT&T would have zero issues/problems with doing any of those things. I'm not saying our government works great. I'm just saying it's, flawed as it is, run by the people. While a company is not.