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So please tell us what the difference is.
by fsflover 7mo ago
So please tell us what the difference is.
- charcircuit 7mo agoWith surveillance a person gets surveilled with telemetry a person doesn't. Telemetry is collecting information about the operation of the device. The goal of telemetry is to understand how the device is operating where with surveillance it is about seeing what a person is doing.
- tavavex 7mo agoThe types of data that's collected for these two purposes have a significant overlap. Sufficiently detailed telemetry is indistinguishable from surveillance because even if the goal isn't to target you right now, they will still have the secondary option of going back and inspecting all that data you sent them if they ever are interested in you. Another secondary use of telemetry is selling it to someone else to squeeze out a bit more money. There's no downside to doing this, so any business that collects a lot of varied telemetry and likes making money might as well do it. And once the data is in the hands of adtech businesses, it becomes a whole lot more like tracking you personally than just collecting some data for development. In Google's case, you don't even need to hand it over to anyone else, everything stays in-house.
- preisschild 7mo agoWhat does it matter in practice? Do you seriously think Google, the targeted advertisement company, does not use that Telemetry for targeted advertisements?
- charcircuit 7mo agoYes, I do seriously think that Google does not use anonymous telemetry for ad targeting.
- fsflover 7mo agoDo you have any reason to think this? Why would Google refuse to earn more money?
- dmantis 7mo agoDo you imply that it's not possible for the US intelligence agencies to request this data from google per person of interest and deliver some information from the metadata? I heavily doubt that.