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Fighting against user tracking strikes me as about as futile as fighting against piracy. Computers are intrinsically designed to store, aggregate, analyze and s
by shalmanese 15y ago
Fighting against user tracking strikes me as about as futile as fighting against piracy. Computers are intrinsically designed to store, aggregate, analyze and share vast quantities of information in the hopes of deriving meaning from them. Trying to derive a legislative solution to a technological force of nature works as well as you would expect in both of these circumstances.
- huxley 15y agoYou have to pick your battles. "It's a force of nature" is only a good argument against a policy when it is accompanied by other valid arguments. There are many things which are "only human nature" or "a force of nature" which for the sake of society and/or personal liberty we restrict. Saying "it's only a force of nature" won't get you far with a judge. And telling people that they can't use the internet if they value their privacy is an unreasonable restriction on personal liberty. Period. I agree that Google can user track, but only so far, and if they need to go to such extremes, we need rules, guidelines or even laws to draw the line very starkly.
- shalmanese 15y agoI'm not saying it's good or acceptable, just that I view the war on user tracking to go about as well as the current war on piracy has.