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To speak bluntly, I'm not sure you're considering that many people want to hide or to be able to hide activities like adultery, gambling, prostitution, unhealth
by ninininino 1y ago
To speak bluntly, I'm not sure you're considering that many people want to hide or to be able to hide activities like adultery, gambling, prostitution, unhealthy food, spending too much time in bars, leaving their wife and kids at home to just go park and sit in a parking lot to get away, etc.
When you're mentally or morally or -whatever term you want- strong, you might miss that some people have things they want to hide that might not be burglary or trespass or murder, but nonetheless they don't want to be broadcast to their social circle.
Maybe we need a term for the Overton window applied to morality (in social terms). If your lifestyle doesn't fit neatly into the thickest part of that window, you might object to always on location sharing but be unable to honestly and openly admit why, leading to people like yourself being puzzled why others might be resistant.
- aeturnum 1y agoI know! I am not sure you are considering that at the moment full sharing is the default and, in many cases, not optional. It seems like you're under the impression that I want us to share location all of the time when I've just said that's too much. It's just the option we have at the moment. We need to figure out when and how to share location and how to develop expectations around when people can know things.
- ninininino 1y agoI think the issue with > and how to develop expectations around when people can know things is that most people will become paranoid when their romantic partner goes "off grid" at 7pm on a Friday, or their spouse on a work trip turns off location on Saturday, or their child goes off grid after school one day. if humans could trust other humans "going dark" then that would be great, but it seems so far the only way to be able to be offline that is socially acceptable is to be 100% offline/unmapped all the time socially.
- aeturnum 1y agoIf you're correct then there's no hope. People will realize they can have the data and will take refusal to provide it as a proxy for misbehavior. For some that time is already here. If we can build alternatives that provide important location information in the proper circumstances without fully tracking people we can advocate for a less dystopian use of the technology.
- watwut 1y agoShared location also makes domestic violence much worst and much harder to escape from. It is not something exceptional or rare. The other danger with it is a targeted harassment and stalker. Both of these are more common then whatever danger corporations represents.