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I have neither a smartphone nor a watch, but I guess I would prefer a watch because neither the manufacturer nor a third party are very likely to track me or do
by kleiba 16y ago
I have neither a smartphone nor a watch, but I guess I would prefer a watch because neither the manufacturer nor a third party are very likely to track me or do any other kind of spying on me. YMMV.
- hugh3 16y agoIf your everyday activities sufficiently interesting to bother spying on, then someone will find a way to spy on you anyway. If they aren't, then I doubt anyone will ever bother to sift through the data to find precisely when you went to the supermarket.
- kleiba 16y agoThat would probably be true if sifting through these data were a very complicated and thus costly thing to do. But is isn't, especially since you can more or less to it for all of your targets simultaneously. And there is good reason to do it, too: profiles of people are a valuable resource.
- oinksoft 16y agoThat line of reasoning neglects the existence of automated data analysis. Not all spying comes with a spy these days.