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You're making the mistake of anthropomorphizing a corporation. Past a certain size, corporations start behaving less like people and more like computers, or may
by smichel17 5y ago
You're making the mistake of anthropomorphizing a corporation. Past a certain size, corporations start behaving less like people and more like computers, or maybe profit-maximizing sociopaths. The intent doesn't matter, because 5 or 10 years down the line, it'll likely be a totally different set of people making the decision. If you want to predict a corporation's behavior, you need to look at the constants (or at least, slower-changing things), like incentives, legal/technical limitations, and internal culture/structure of decision-making (e.g. How much agency do individual humans have?).
- kemayo 5y agoI feel that I was stating the incentives, though. This being an area people are paying attention to makes it less likely they'll do unpopular things involving it, from a pure "we like good PR and profits" standpoint. They might sneak these things in elsewhere, but this specific on-device-scanning program has been shown to be a risk even at its current anodyne level.