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unfortunately, there are Thiel-like support services in the wings actively building business bridges at every step. Some elements in society really do try to ge
by mistrial9 4y ago
unfortunately, there are Thiel-like support services in the wings actively building business bridges at every step. Some elements in society really do try to get paid to surveil others, and that will continue. I predict only hard-won litigation, meaningful laws with enforcement, and public discussion like this, will slow the slide on the slippery slope.
- mindslight 4y ago"Some" ? The entire market cap of modern Silicon Valley is based upon monetizing surveillance. This topic demonstrates one of the main pathologies of the US model of governance. Instead of pushing constructive actionable privacy restrictions for everyone, the government is poised to create another hook that merely emboldens corporate control. What we need is a US GDPR with an analogous definition of consent - if implementing functionality to examine and delete my data is too hard, then just don't store surveillance records about me in the first place! But what we'll end up getting is ineffectual nonsense to be nullified with more clickwrap legalese that nobody reads.
- mistrial9 4y ago> The entire market cap of modern Silicon Valley is based upon monetizing surveillance. no, its not.. but a bulk of FB/Google dollars that are, dwarfs a lot of other things.. its a sick situation, I can agree with that.. important to speak out