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> There is no social solution to surveillance. I disagree. Legislation can be enacted that makes it a crime to use a person's online (or offline) activity as a
by gerikson 6y ago
> There is no social solution to surveillance.
I disagree. Legislation can be enacted that makes it a crime to use a person's online (or offline) activity as a basis for targeted advertising.
- ancarda 6y agoThe NSA isn't allowed to spy on American citizens, so they get the GCHQ to spy on Americans and they exchange data on British citizens in return. You literally have a government helping another government to break the fucking law. Not to mention it's illegal to not pay your taxes, and yet almost every big company does. So I'm just not convinced the solution can be as simple as "just enact legislation". We need a technical solution. Even if you want legislation, a technical solution is good to act as another layer of protection. Technology can be checked -- by reading the source code or inspecting network traffic -- to make sure you're not being spied on. That's vastly superior to any solution that expects people to pinky promise to not do anything bad.