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> Companies are taking their cues from Facebook and now they're all in a race to build back-end data warehouses of information of individuals (...) The current

by nuerow 5y ago

> Companies are taking their cues from Facebook and now they're all in a race to build back-end data warehouses of information of individuals (...) The current state of affairs can be explained without dragging Facebook or other bogeymen into the picture. The inception of A/B testing, business metrics, and even crash analytics on applications deployed to devices that are always on is prime ground to emit tons of metrics regarding anything the application/device does. Even though I agree that this state of affairs goes against the users' best interests, there's no need to refer to bogeymen to explain why apps phone home.

winternett 5y ago
Common diagnostic info primarily reports on the device's status, there aren't many privacy concerns in that past transgression. What I'm worried about is the practice of device reporting done on individual user behaviors unrelated to device operation, which previously required careful measures to not report in software-based monitoring. Rules exist within the US government to protect Personally Identifiable Information, but somehow now not within private companies like FaceBook? Now that real-time connectivity and information is available, companies have access to data (well beyond what even most governments can collect) that can easily be weaponized against individuals, or even compromised by hackers or less-ethical companies and then also weaponized against individuals or groups in ways no-one has even thought about yet... "Boogeymen" is perhaps an improper name because they don't even know the devastating impacts that this personal data collection trend will lead to into the future... "Incompetent Egoists" and "Ignorant God Complex" are probably better terms to use in describing the individuals involved in implementing this type of reckless societal behavior monitoring.

by nuerow 5y ago

winternett 5y ago

Common diagnostic info primarily reports on the device's status, there aren't many privacy concerns in that past transgression. What I'm worried about is the practice of device reporting done on individual user behaviors unrelated to device operation, which previously required careful measures to not report in software-based monitoring. Rules exist within the US government to protect Personally Identifiable Information, but somehow now not within private companies like FaceBook? Now that real-time connectivity and information is available, companies have access to data (well beyond what even most governments can collect) that can easily be weaponized against individuals, or even compromised by hackers or less-ethical companies and then also weaponized against individuals or groups in ways no-one has even thought about yet... "Boogeymen" is perhaps an improper name because they don't even know the devastating impacts that this personal data collection trend will lead to into the future... "Incompetent Egoists" and "Ignorant God Complex" are probably better terms to use in describing the individuals involved in implementing this type of reckless societal behavior monitoring.