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Do you think users should be prohibited from installing software on their own devices to monitor and analyze their internet usage? Or do you think they should
by yorwba 3y ago
Do you think users should be prohibited from installing software on their own devices to monitor and analyze their internet usage?
Or do you think they should be allowed to do that, but they should be prohibited from selling that data to a third party?
Or do you think they should be allowed to do that, but said third party should be prohibited from using that data to analyze their competitors' apps?
Or do you think they should be allowed to do that, but the user should be informed very clearly exactly what kind of data they're selling and what kinds of sensitive information they might be revealing about themselves?
Exactly where in the chain do you put the point where someone gets jailed?
- tetris11 3y agoThe first two, the user is in control of their data. The rest, they aren't. The comment doesn't track well either: the user is already being advertised to by using these services and understands the transaction. The user becoming the product too, is not clear to the user.
- yorwba 3y agoIn the second and third cases, the user is selling the exact same set of data, so how come they're in control in one case but not the other? I don't see how advertising is relevant here, since AFAIK the Facebook Research VPN didn't show ads, but did pay users $20 per month to record their traffic.