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I shouldn't have to turn off my phone, I should be able to shop (using the malls services) and use my cell phone (a service entirely unrelated to the shopping m
by libraryatnight 15y ago
I shouldn't have to turn off my phone, I should be able to shop (using the malls services) and use my cell phone (a service entirely unrelated to the shopping mall) without having to worry about this nonsense.
I honestly don't see what business the mall has using a tactic like this. I hear the 'it's no big deal' argument, but something about the path we're on with this feels sinister.
I don't have a technological, philosophical, political argument for not liking this, I just do not want to be tracked. I feel akin to a toddler throwing a tantrum, I want to heap all of my electronics in a pile and stomp up and down on them screaming "I DON'T WANNA BE TRACKED!"
Unfortunately gadgets, phones, etc have a pretty good hold on me so I'm stuck grumbling on the internet, where I'm tracked.
edit: changed reason to argument, since thinking about it I probably do have some philosophical reasons but not anything broad and clear enough to form an argument.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI think we will have to adjust our expectations of privacy as technology changes. Larry Niven was right - technology does change a society's ethics. We always knew we had little privacy in public - we could be photographed, people could notice us and compare notes. But now, technology is making this easy, and it's making it automated. You can pass all the laws you want, but it would be very difficult to outlaw me placing a camera in my window pointing outward, and sharing that stream with the internet.
- geon 15y agoThen don't go there. Seriously.
- libraryatnight 15y agoI don't plan to, but that's not really the point. Because at some point it becomes, "Don't go where?"
- ams6110 15y agoYeah I don't go to malls because they seem like disease incubators and smell like human flatulence. But it's really not about the malls.