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When it comes to privacy violations in the digital age, this is so far down the list of concerns that I don't understand why we're talking about it. Probably ju
by airlocksoftware 15y ago
When it comes to privacy violations in the digital age, this is so far down the list of concerns that I don't understand why we're talking about it. Probably just because some politicians in (I believe it was) Germany misunderstood what it is and took legal action against Google.
Facebook / other social networks, poorly secured databases, warrantless GPS tracking (in the U.S.), cell phone data being stored; these are all orders of magnitude more worrying and more likely to cause harm.
- rickmb 15y agoOh, I agree it's way down the list. But this attitude is exactly what I mean: nobody misunderstood anything. Really. Just because people have different values and priorities doesn't mean that they are too stupid to understand the issues. It certainly doesn't mean their laws can simply be ignored if you do business in their country. Anyway, I'm going to stop arguing that point, since apparently this place is turning into Reddit, and downvotes our now used just to bury other opinions.