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Regulations? Legislation? None of that means anything in this age of "it's only wrong/illegal if you get caught". What's needed is to kick these shitty anti-use
by coldacid 3y ago
Regulations? Legislation? None of that means anything in this age of "it's only wrong/illegal if you get caught". What's needed is to kick these shitty anti-user services to the curb, and switch wholesale to ones that actually care about user agency, security, and privacy.
- mindslight 3y agoI agree with where you're coming from with the approach of users needing to kick shitty anti-user services to the curb. But I'd say why not both? It doesn't need to be an either-or. Legislation sets normative behavior, even if it is not enforced fully or companies find loopholes. It is simply not right for a free society to have surveillance databases that would make the most staunch Stasi agent blush, and we should work towards the goal of ending them by every avenue possible. Also how do you propose to kick say Equifax to the curb through individual action? There are many services that don't exist via user consent or interaction, but rather just by purported assent through contracts of adhesion from some de facto mandatory industry.