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What's missing is a catastrophic privacy event. People have been yelling from rooftops about how terrible losing your privacy could be, but the horror stories
by WendyTheWillow 3y ago
What's missing is a catastrophic privacy event. People have been yelling from rooftops about how terrible losing your privacy could be, but the horror stories aren't coming true. There aren't any wide-scale or pervasive negative consequences of a loss of privacy, and there are a lot of immediate positives.
An insurer needs to start disqualifying anyone who, I dunno, is shown in Google Maps to be out at bars past 11 PM or something like that. Until you can show the practical problems associated with a lack of privacy, people won't care, and I would even argue that those people aren't entirely unjustified in that belief.
- hanniabu 3y ago> What's missing is a catastrophic privacy event *that directly affect politicians
- supertrope 3y agoThe Video Privacy Protection Act was passed after Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's VHS rental history was leaked to a newspaper.
- supertrope 3y agoI imagine it would take something like a sympathetic party like a child being identified, located, and murdered using breached data before a "Megan's Law" for data privacy passes.
- adolph 3y agoThey could probably add a cell phone alert to it. I wonder what color they would use? Amber, Silver, Blue and Camo (not certain if Clear counts) are already used: https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/intelligence-counterterrorism/statewide-alert-programs https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/intelligence-counterterror...
- BobaFloutist 3y agoNever trust a law named after a child.
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoNope, as that's basically like being struck by lightning. Needs to be both common and punishing, as that's what the doomsayers are claiming is inevitable.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoWhat's missing is a catastrophic privacy event. People have been yelling from rooftops about how terrible losing your privacy could be, but the horror stories aren't coming true. I would argue that the identification of the Golden State Killer (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-08/man-in-the-window https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-08/man-in-t...) was pretty catastrophic for him. Now in this particular case the magnitude of his crimes make it a little hard to feel bad for him, but once the method is established the only thing we have restricting its replication for more petty crimes is the discretion of law enforcement, and explicit legislation.
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoI think you're missing the point if your example of "wide-scale or pervasive negative consequences" is "one guy who definitely murdered a bunch of people got caught".