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Who are you to tell me I can't connect my crock pot to the internet if I want to? Seems to me the better solution is to make it illegal to collect data through

• exabrial 3y ago
  I'm trying to remember the last time when a manufacturer chose doing the right thing and following the letter and spirit of the law... over profit. That's my point... even making this stuff available will inevitably turn into abuse.
  • squigz 3y ago
    > doing the right thing > following the letter and spirit of the law These things do not go hand-in-hand. Corporations aren't going to "do the right thing", no, but they certainly are going to follow the (letter of the) law to some extent. I don't imagine Google pays millions of dollars to lawyers for them to sit around :P This sort of logic can be used to dismiss the entirety of law - after all, crime still exists despite being illegal, so what's the point, right? So again, the bigger issue is making it difficult/impossible for corporations to circumvent (hopefully sane) laws - and probably to minimize the influence they have on creating that legislation. Anyway, this is also why FOSS is important - assuming these systems were made free and open source, and a company wants to abuse their position... users aren't locked into their platform and can hopefully move to another