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Maybe I'm an overly-sensitive person but I really can't get comfortable with a neural network looking over my shoulder, spying on me 24/7. My parents gave me p
by dmitryminkovsky 5y ago
Maybe I'm an overly-sensitive person but I really can't get comfortable with a neural network looking over my shoulder, spying on me 24/7.
My parents gave me privacy and treated me with respect when I was a child. Now I'm an adult, and in a way it's like I have less privacy than when I was a kid. And the entities violating my privacy have way more power than my parents.
I want to continue working with technology, but how can I make mass consumer goods (i.e. apps) without being a user myself? These moves are going to slowly force me out of technology, which is sad, because creating with programming is my favorite activity. But life without some semblance privacy is hardly life.
Here's to a slow farewell, Apple! It was a good run.
- Uupis 5y agoI could have written this comment myself, albeit less eloquently. That is a very accurate representation of how I feel about this, too. I enjoy building apps, but I don't know that I can keep using these devices. I was looking forward to upgrading to the new hardware in the fall, but now I'm not sure I can stomach the implications of buying a new device that may at any point start policing what I do far beyond what I'd accepted at the time of purchase.