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There is a huge fundamental difference between telemetry for the sake of product lock-in, advertising, and profits...vs data harvesting for oppressive regimes t
by Incipient 3y ago
There is a huge fundamental difference between telemetry for the sake of product lock-in, advertising, and profits...vs data harvesting for oppressive regimes that make people disappear, and malicious actors to hack, steal, and blackmail people and organisations.
Just because the action is somewhat similar, the outcome is world's apart.
- M95D 3y agoTrump was elected by vote. Hitler too. So, the outcome in the west may suddenly change after elections. What will you do then? It will be too late to "uncollect" 30 years' data about you.
- Incipient 3y agoIt's still a private company collecting for profit,not a government. I'm not saying that's good either, I'm just saying "Microsoft collects advertising data so China can bug phones" is an insane comparison.