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This article is cheap sensationalism to foster Luddite paranoia. The beacons will only track those that want to be tracked. And there a lot of valid situations
by diego_moita 12y ago
This article is cheap sensationalism to foster Luddite paranoia. The beacons will only track those that want to be tracked. And there a lot of valid situations where people would want to share geographical information in order to be guided, notified or rescued.
Sometimes I feel that valid concerns on privacy are doing to IT what pollution did to chemistry: people got so panicked that blindly reject any valid contribution that technology might give.
- dreamweapon 12y agoThe main point is that the beacons were installed in secret, without any public notice or consultation. And that, time after time, many "opt-in" services prove to be not so "opt-in" after all (thanks to technical backdooring and/or murky service agreements). It isn't Luddite paranoid, or cheap sensationalism to point this out; it's good journalism, coming from a surprising source (BuzzFeed, which for years seemed to have cheap sensationalism written into its very DNA).