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More like, AT&T selling location and tower tracking data, linked to your identity and unique phone info, such as GSM Sim serial numbers and so on, which can be
by b112 3y ago
More like, AT&T selling location and tower tracking data, linked to your identity and unique phone info, such as GSM Sim serial numbers and so on, which can be linked to your phone. And even if you use pay-as-you-go SIMs, if you use a credit card once, your real-world ID is linked to the phone.
And even selling services like alerts when such providers move out of a geo-located region, a person's domicile, and so on.
Of course, that'd never happen... right?
I agree that this -- all of this, needs to be defined as criminal activity. That once such laws are passed, boards of directors, and executives face jail time, should they breach such laws.
What we'll likely need, in the end, is a mandated CTO position, with responsibilities and duties akin to a CFO.
- m463 3y agoI found it interesting how your cellphone location data is sold with your implied consent. Like if you are looking for roadside assistance.
- doredi 3y agoPart of the issue is how we are conditioned by the ruling class to use benign words like "interesting" when we know more accurate words would convey passion, meaning, and actual anger towards those who want our data.
- bborud 3y agoIf you allow there to be a ruling class in a democracy, is it still a democracy?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> If you allow there to be a ruling class in a democracy, is it still a democracy Yes, democracy is about fracturing the elite and making its membership more porous. Not wand waving it away.
- m463 3y agoI used the word more tongue-in-cheek. Not that I don't agree with your point about ambiguous use of words, or euphemisms to minimize or normalize bad behavior. Words like "telemetry" or "advertising", which nowadays mean "conduct surveillance on someone and keep a detailed dossier"
- itsoktocry 3y ago>What we'll likely need, in the end, is a mandated CTO position, with responsibilities and duties akin to a CFO. Yeah, let's mandate a position where people are calling for your head (literally) when you make a stupid call. Who wants the job? Any takers?
- fragmede 3y agoCISO is a well paid job for exactly that reason.
- alwa 3y agoIf you don’t set high expectations and hold decisionmakers accountable to the consequences of their decisions, why would you expect the quality of their decisions to be high rather than merely expedient? It sounds like the pay for that position should be high enough to compensate for the risk, and that the penalty for failure should be consequential enough that only people with the talent, skills, and judgment to be confident in their decisions would take the job. The financial people have skin in the game in the form of this kind of personal legal liability, and that seems to keep the financial shenanigans mainly on the “obscure but within the letter of the law” side of the line no matter what kind of pressure the CEO might bring to bear to cook the books. When security and technical governance are a cost center and compliance is optional (or, at worst, a potential PR threat)—and when privacy has no concrete value but data does—wouldn’t it be bad business not to monetize the data and be quiet about it so as to minimize the PR threat?