3 ms·

This is analogous to solving murder by telling everyone to stay home since serial killers run free on the street instead of catching & jailing murderers. Maybe

This is analogous to solving murder by telling everyone to stay home since serial killers run free on the street instead of catching & jailing murderers. Maybe we could enforce the (existing!) laws against malware, fraud, spam, etc so that people can continue to install apps & use them and be confident knowing that nothing bad will happen, and if it does happen then the offenders will be punished appropriately? GDPR breaches aren't limited to apps btw, it happens on websites and even in real life (Tesco stores in the UK for example have a notice inside the store about data collection; presumably they're doing Bluetooth/Wi-Fi MAC address tracking - by the time you read the notice you're already being stalked, and there's no way to opt-out other than inconveniencing yourself by manually toggling the relevant radios before going to the store).

nonrandomstring 3y ago
> analogous to solving murder by telling everyone to stay home since serial killers run free on the street. You're advocating an extreme measure (locking yourself at home) in response to a practically non-existent threat ("serial killers" do not roam the streets looking for random victims except in Hollywood plots). OTOH the chance of an average person being scammed by corporate data thieves seems less than one in ten, as a total guess. So surely you see you're making a disingenuous analogy. Education is a very powerful weapon against the criminality of Surveillance Capitalism. And it's flexible; people can choose a range of responses, from pausing before installing a new app, to getting rid of their smartphone and choosing a better lifestyle.
- Nextgrid 3y ago
  I meant this in a hypothetical world where we'd "solve" murder by letting murderers walk free and telling people to hide at home (your proposed approach to solving GDPR breaches) instead of applying the law and jailing them.

nonrandomstring 3y ago

> analogous to solving murder by telling everyone to stay home since serial killers run free on the street. You're advocating an extreme measure (locking yourself at home) in response to a practically non-existent threat ("serial killers" do not roam the streets looking for random victims except in Hollywood plots). OTOH the chance of an average person being scammed by corporate data thieves seems less than one in ten, as a total guess. So surely you see you're making a disingenuous analogy. Education is a very powerful weapon against the criminality of Surveillance Capitalism. And it's flexible; people can choose a range of responses, from pausing before installing a new app, to getting rid of their smartphone and choosing a better lifestyle.

Nextgrid 3y ago
I meant this in a hypothetical world where we'd "solve" murder by letting murderers walk free and telling people to hide at home (your proposed approach to solving GDPR breaches) instead of applying the law and jailing them.