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If you want to know how bullshit intellectual "property" is, ask the simple question of who owns the personal information the ad company collected about me? Of
by simbolit 3y ago
If you want to know how bullshit intellectual "property" is, ask the simple question of who owns the personal information the ad company collected about me?
Of course, the ad company owns it, because of their hard intellectual work of collecting it.
Me? No, why would I own information about me? What logic of property is this?
- nox100 3y agoIf you come to my restaurant isn't in my info that you walked in my door, sat at my table, ordered my food? Why do you think it's your info? When two interact both sides get to remember the interaction.
- simbolit 3y agoThe question is not if you can "remember" it. That is not what ownership in personal information is about. The question is whether you can __sell__ the information that I had three double cheese burgers and extra greasy fries to my health insurance provider.
- Manuel_D 3y agoYou still own the information. You can retain a lot of all your restaurant visits and order history and sell that if you want to.
- brookst 3y agoThe question is whether you own information about their food choices that you can sell to a third party without even telling the customer it was collected. On the one hand, it seems obvious that you have a right to observe, collect data, and sell it. On the other hand, ick.
- seanp2k2 3y agoJust ask TV and car manufacturers who collect telemetry about absolutely everything you do with their products and probably everything that happens on your connected phone and/or wifi network too.
- zzo38computer 3y agoSuch things would use up the customer's (electrical) power for the company's profit in ways that were not intended by the purchaser. That is in addition to spying, which it also is.
- SantalBlush 3y agoYes, and it's "ick" because that's the actual definition of a spy [0]: > 1 : one that spies: a : one who keeps secret watch on a person or thing to obtain information [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spy
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago“Ick”? “Actual definition”? I think we’ve got more intellectual integrity than this.
- vimax 3y agoBut if I walk into a franchise restaurant with a camera recording, they'll kick me out while happily recording and selling data with their own cameras.
- somat 3y agoI always thought the weirdest cases were in genetic fields. Where the ip in question is violated by every single living person.