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The corporate surveillance machine is conducting murder at scale
- h2odragon 6y agoIm confused, it was just a few weeks ago that this data being widely available was "open society" and everybody suspected of Trumpism having their location data checked to see if they'd been near the capitol was "open source intelligence..." I think I have to disagree in principle with the author here; The gun maker isn't responsible for the murder committed with it; the data vendor isn't responsible for the use or misuse of it, and the person who makes the SQL query work isn't responsible for the decisions others make based on what it shows. I'd certainly be happier with this kind of capability better controlled if it must exist but then look at the places where those tight controls and public scrutiny are already supposed to exist (FISA courts anyone?)... it all comes down to simple silly human factors in the end so lets design for that from the start.
- zepto 6y agoI vehemently dislike ad-tech and the sale of personal data, but this seems like a bizarre argument. Do we know anything about how the data was bought, or whether they knew what it would be used for?
- wmf 6y agoData brokers will sell data to anyone; they don't ask or care who's buying or what it will be used for.
- zepto 6y agoLike almost all sales of any kind? So what have they got to do with murder?
- wmf 6y agoMy takeaway from Drew's argument is that buying and selling location data was mostly viewed as harmless but now we can see that it's not. This makes yet another case for GDPR-like regulation to rein in such practices.
- zepto 6y agoIt’s just false to say that the people selling location data are involved in murder. It’s a bad argument.
- sha1337 6y agoI don't think OP is being hyperbolic actually: https://www.libyanexpress.com/muslim-pro-cuts-ties-with-x-mode-over-selling-user-data-to-us-military/ https://www.libyanexpress.com/muslim-pro-cuts-ties-with-x-mo...