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Of course, it's all fine and cool until health insurance starts increasing your monthly payments because you bought too much "unhealthy/non-bio" food. Or when y
by levosmetalo 13y ago
Of course, it's all fine and cool until health insurance starts increasing your monthly payments because you bought too much "unhealthy/non-bio" food. Or when you start getting longer TSA "treatments" because you purchased "wrong and dangerous" book. Or you "just" start getting super creepy targeted advertisement on your mailbox.
No thanks, anything that technically allows tracking will be tracked eventually, if not already. Why would I provide that information free of charge to anyone? I respect my privacy, and I'm glad that I live in a country where people are at least aware of the privacy issues.
Let's say that people's awareness of the privacy and need to protect private information is the only positive legacy from the memories of Gestapo and Stasi.
- danieldk 13y agoOf course, it's all fine and cool until health insurance starts [...] Agreed. But digitalization of society is not something that can be stopped. Just by posting here on Hackernews, you left plenty of traces that can be mined. We should demand from our governments that laws are put into place so that our data is not only protected, but controlled by ourselves.
- levosmetalo 13y agoI agree that we should push our government in that direction, but should also keep protecting our privacy ourselves whenever possible. If we can't avoid inevitable, we could at least postpone it for a decade or two. There's an old (Russian?) saying that goes like: "Pray to the God, but keep swimming to the coast!"