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My favourite bit of this article. "Google, until a few years ago, scanned your private email to show you ads. Many email carriers still do. If private electron
by john_the_writer 4y ago
My favourite bit of this article.
"Google, until a few years ago, scanned your private email to show you ads. Many email carriers still do. If private electronic messages can be scanned for one purpose, they can be scanned for any purpose."
I love that idea.
I say.. we add cameras to all TV's and watch what you watch.
We then make it super hard to get a notebook and a pen (because we cannot monitor those, and clearly we must).
It all sounds reasonable.
Oh wait, I have read this book about how to do this right... For the life of me I can't remember what it was called. I bet the Disinformation Governance Board will know the name of the book. I think it's part of their required reading.
- john_the_writer 4y agowhich privacy restrictions would have to be relaxed.
- version_five 4y ago> "Google, until a few years ago, scanned your private email to show you ads. Many email carriers still do. If private electronic messages can be scanned for one purpose, they can be scanned for any purpose." I find this very ironic because I suspect the same people who think this way would also jump on critics for committing a "slippery slope fallacy" or dismiss criticism as "what's the big deal" but then are happy to use whatever victory they have as a beachhead for more abuses