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Good for them! Citizens should be able to interact with government without being tracked. I'm not against the idea that government uses analytics, or even outs
by tofflos 4y ago
Good for them! Citizens should be able to interact with government without being tracked.
I'm not against the idea that government uses analytics, or even outsources analytics operations, as long as there is enforceable regulation preventing that data from being used for other purposes and a reasonable amount of money is being exchanged. When you pay nothing, or next to nothing, it becomes obvious that the underlying business model is, at least partially, based on selling ads or personal information.
- mike_hock 4y agoThere's no enforceable regulation regarding what happens to data after it has disappeared in a black box. And paying money doesn't remove the underlying mechanism that made the "free" model viable in the first place. The incentive to use it on top of charging for the service is still there. (That's how you get microtransactions and pay-to-win in games that you've already paid for, for example.)