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And running those databases were Sun machines. Sun's CEO, Scott McNealy's famous comment, "You have no privacy; get over it," is all the more ominous in light o

And running those databases were Sun machines. Sun's CEO, Scott McNealy's famous comment, "You have no privacy; get over it," is all the more ominous in light of this. The fact that corporations now have all the data on us just brings them into parity with the government. https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/ https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/

ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
What a non American saying. We should exile this traitor.
titzer 4y ago
> into parity with the government. lol, as it if were some kind of competition. The reality is the surveillance state knows no real boundaries. The federal intelligence agencies can get whatever they want with little or no friction. Most requests don't even rise to the level of a NSL, which is the "sudo" of "give me all your data on X". In reality there is a range of cooperative behaviors anywhere from a payments system to wholly owned subsidiary to warrant. The government loves the innovation that the private surveillance market has come up with. It's a buffet at this point.
tpmx 4y ago
So that's who Eric Schmidt (Google/Alphabet CEO/chairman 2001-2017) learned this from. He was at Sun in various high-level leadership positions in 1983-1997. "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" - Eric Schmidt (2009) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-dismisses-privacy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...