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"surveillance-for-profit business models to be forbidden" Are you going to ban TV networks and credit card companies next? Grocery store loyalty programs? Prac
by guyzero 6y ago
"surveillance-for-profit business models to be forbidden"
Are you going to ban TV networks and credit card companies next? Grocery store loyalty programs? Practically every company these days collects about their users and customers.
- Ensorceled 6y agoCredit companies would do just fine if they couldn't sell your data. Loyalty programs don't need to sell your data, they existed before it was even possible. TV networks ... wait, how is broadcast TV even collecting your data. None of these businesses NEED to collect and sell your behavioural and demographic data to exist. TV and newspapers would probably start doing OK if precision targeted ads were not possible.
- oaiey 6y agoGoogle how modern TV spies on what you view on your screen (not talking your Netflix App here ;))
- Ensorceled 6y agoRight, I know the bullshit Samsung etc. is up to. How is broadast television doing it?
- guyzero 6y agoNot broadcast per se but cable company set top boxes monitor your viewing habits and correlate them with your account which has a bunch of demographic data.
- Ensorceled 6y agoYeah, so not TV Networks (Fox,NBC,ABC,...) but Comcast/AT&T etc.
- krageon 6y agoI don't see why banning those things should be controversial or extreme in any way. Predatory business interests need to die.
- bmn__ 6y agoIn a just world — where the basic human right of privacy counts as much as the basic human rights of free speech, free travel, free reproduction, not being tortured or enslaved etc. — they would be forbidden. Let them figure out a way to be profitable without infringing. Unfortunately, the Americans, the Russians and the Chinese are against pervasive privacy and pay only lip service to the UDHR at best.