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The author completely misses the second very important reason why someone might be against companies collecting sawths of personal data: government surveillance
by Mystery-Machine 3y ago
The author completely misses the second very important reason why someone might be against companies collecting sawths of personal data: government surveillance.
There are more and more cases where individuals get their phones searched without permission, their internet browsing history spied on, etc. Articles like this "I don't care" really don't help. In fact, they only do damage.
- npsimons 3y agoGiven the history of the writer of the blog post's (apenwarr) involvement in Debian, I highly doubt they missed that particular bugaboo. Mayhap he's just burned out by it at this point, or he's just stating the facts: there's not really anything anyone who cares can do do change it, so don't spend precious attention worrying about it.