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Let's say a streaming music service collects information on what you have listened to and how long. Is that surveillance? What if they use it to back a page whe
by jefftk 5y ago
Let's say a streaming music service collects information on what you have listened to and how long. Is that surveillance? What if they use it to back a page where you can see what you've been listening to recently? If they start recommending new artists based on your listening history?
- matheusmoreira 5y agoNothing inherently wrong with those features. The problem is some corporation owns this data, not us. It would be fine if it was some local software instead.
- _proofs 5y agothis is by definition surveillance -- a "...monitoring of behavior, activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, managing, or directing." [0] to possibly downplay it or imply otherwise because the collected information may (or may not) benefit the user is just spin. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance