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I’m ok with TVs and jewelry getting stolen occasionally if it means my government is not constantly tracking my every move

• alwa 2y ago
  Isn’t the whole geofence request paradigm an elegant compromise to address that, though? The requestors don’t get to track everyone’s every move. Instead, they have to specify exactly where and when based on a thing that actually happened, and the private corporation controlling all that location data decides whether or not the request is narrow enough to answer. A mechanism like this allows them to realize the social benefits of that kind of a data trove existing, while providing some kind of a check on the way they use that data. However flimsy that check may be, it still seems really different from the government itself collecting and controlling all that data itself. And if anything, it takes the wind out of the argument that government properly should be the custodians of that kind of data: they can use it in the rare cases where they can describe a clear purpose, but they can’t just go frolicking through the movements of every person in their jurisdiction for funsies [0]. Is it necessarily bad that, in the US system, it turned out to be just the tacky companies slinging ads who control that utterly comprehensive archive of spy data, and it’s the guys with guns who have to ask nicely to access it? [0] at least not through mobile geolocation data. Contrast with Flock Safety’s nationwide mutual data exchange compacts: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article288186795.html https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/artic...