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>Silently gathering data about a person's activities (As a privacy fanatic who uses GPDR all the time to get control of his data) sadly, I think that this is t
by hash872 5y ago
>Silently gathering data about a person's activities
(As a privacy fanatic who uses GPDR all the time to get control of his data) sadly, I think that this is the fundamental nature of the technological era that we're living in. This is just how software works, many things that were previously private in an analog era are now explicit somewhere in the code. Do you really think that if various Apple or whomever policies are struck down, the tech that's built in the 2020s & 30s & 40s & the rest of the 21st century somehow won't gather data on people? As someone who's really unhappy about that state of affairs, it just seems inevitable.
Edit to include: I suspect that 'privacy' is going to be viewed as just a brief moment in time for humans. Previously we all lived in small groups or villages with little privacy (I grew up in a small town, I know!), so the 'privacy' era may have just been for urban dwellers for a few centuries
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoIt was limited to the village. If an outsider fell out of favor of villagers, they could kill him and pretend he was eaten by wolves.
- enumjorge 5y agoI don’t buy that technology is anti privacy by nature, at least to the extent that it is today. By and large people’s personal data is collected in order to support ad-based business models. Back in the 90s it was more common for people to pay for software and tech did not collect as much data. Our current state hasn’t always been the case. It’s just been normalized because lawmakers moved at glacial pace to protect people’s privacy.
- nextaccountic 5y ago> This is just how software works It's not. It's just how spyware works, but software doesn't need to be that way. It may right now be, but this doesn't make it right. Or inevitable, like a force of nature. My free, open source software doesn't silently gather data about me (and if it did, I would patch it). We have a right to run our software on our own machines, on our own terms.
- hhaha88 5y agoIt’s how landlords work, not software. Billions of people cannot afford to be online, the environmental toll of consumer gadgets is catastrophic. You seem to think this is forever. I wish more engineers had gone into plain old physics. Humanity hardly needed more meandering story tellers emotionally decoupled from the real constraints of our reality. Physical reality always determines our next steps as that’s what provides the information we have to iterate against.