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could you imagine any orginisation just walking up to almost every home in the country and presuming they had the right to "a very small portion" of your proper
by foxhill 5y ago
could you imagine any orginisation just walking up to almost every home in the country and presuming they had the right to "a very small portion" of your property, unless you went through some steps to explicitly opt out?
imagine they paid for their own infra to do this. how much would that cost? in this light, is sidewalk not theft?
amazon, if you want to use my internet - for whichever distopic future plans you may have - you can pay me for it. it will not be cheap.
- Spivak 5y agoI agree with the spirit of this but precedent doesn’t really agree with you because well… ads, analytics, telemetry, drm, etc.. These are all things that use your computing resources for someone else’s benefit. This is the culture we’ve created in tech. There is a presumption that access implies blanket authorization — it’s the core of the hacker spirit, perpetuated through ToS’s, and protected at every legal challenge because restrictions to this idea are seen as overbearing regulation and stifling innovation. I’ve always wished for regulation that required companies to have to request permission to access data and computing resources for a specific purpose and require that be opt-out by default. Like apps can request contacts for the purpose of looking up friends who use your service and be legally barred for using it for anything else.