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"OK, now we'll really stop surveilling. promise!" they invested so much I'm sure this is how it is for good now, no turning back. that's the screwed up thing.
by fat0wl 13y ago
"OK, now we'll really stop surveilling. promise!"
they invested so much I'm sure this is how it is for good now, no turning back. that's the screwed up thing. America seems to have a lot of sunken cost fallacy. Once they've begun something it's easier to continue illegally than tear it all down. Same deal with 23andme Genome stuff. Makes more sense to them to operate illegally & take on the FDA than slow down a lucrative business.
- Zikes 13y agoI can seriously picture some sort of phased process where they stop doing one thing, and then another, over the course of several years. It would be as a result of this ruling or one like it, which explicitly calls out the behavior as invasive and harmful, but they would tread on as long as they could thanks to sunk costs. It'd be akin to a bully with a tazer saying "Well I've already spent the past several years tazing you several times a day and I spent sooo much on this fancy tazer, so how about we bring that down to just twice a day for the first year, then daily for the year after that, then every other day, and so on?"