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No shit. As already said years ago. [0] Closed source software is surveillance technology. Internet of Things is surveillance technology. Blockchain / crypto
by rvz 3y ago
No shit. As already said years ago. [0]
Closed source software is surveillance technology.
Internet of Things is surveillance technology.
Blockchain / crypto is surveillance technology.
Virtual Reality is surveillance technology.
AI is surveillance technology.
Very disappointed that it took you guys this long to realize that, but it is too late to stop all of it entirely.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31617042 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31617042
- moritonal 3y agoI guess the most generic is that "Convince is a surveillance technology"? Passing the buck to someone else will always have surveillance effects.
- npteljes 3y agoNot really though. Cloud, for example, is more closely tied to surveillance than the examples you provided.
- wrsh07 3y agoI'm not saying it's contradictory to say closed source is surveillance tech and open source is surveillance tech, but it's certainly unintuitive. For my part, it feels like some tech is designed for specific use cases (eg pinboard, kagi). If you trust those developers they don't need to open source their work. If you look at it from a systems perspective, ad tech benefits from scale and data, so when a product is built "for everyone" and monetized with ads.... Yeah it's going to be surveillance tech