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I will employ a spy/cop to follow you everywhere and log everything you do in detail, would you consider it a surveillance? Of course, he will refrain from list
by Yizahi 5y ago
I will employ a spy/cop to follow you everywhere and log everything you do in detail, would you consider it a surveillance? Of course, he will refrain from listening to you talking and won't enter your home. But everywhere else he will follow you at a distance.
This is essentially what is going on in the internet. Metadata collection = Surveillance.
- chopin 5y agoThe analogy breaks at the point "won't enter your home". Current surveillance tech does exactly the analogous of that. It's rather like having a cop sitting at home pinky-promising not to listen or storing any conversation. Maybe it's even worse. There are third-party analytics tools which send out any key-stroke you do, even if you don't submit any form. It has become the new normal. Take todays article in Ars Technica on Audacity (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audacity-audio-editor-is-not-spyware/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audac...). The author has no complaint about the fact that a tool for local editing of audio files reaches out to the internet to send data about the user and seemingly defends this on grounds that it is opt-in. That's fine but that code is needlessly there. There's no reason whatsoever for it. And I am tired of being told that surveillance is for my benefit. No, it's not. It's solely for the benefit of the surveillor.
- markzzerella 5y agoIf metadata is good enough to kill people it's dangerous enough to stop collecting en masse.
- djbebs 5y agoOh no, hes going to be reading every email you send and receive, every message and everything you do. D9nt worry though, he wont do anything unless he finds anything illegal.