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agreed. my first thought in reading this: "Dear Mr. Kalanick - how dare you allow your staff to announce an idea to spy on the American people and use the info
by lmg643 12y ago
agreed. my first thought in reading this:
"Dear Mr. Kalanick - how dare you allow your staff to announce an idea to spy on the American people and use the information you learn against them? Didn't you know that privilege is exclusively for the US government?
You know we will partner with you to abuse the vast information available on the habits of Americans through your service when the time is right - no need to get people riled up more than they already are.
Best Regards,
Uncle Sam."
- peteretep 12y agoThe biggest thing that will disenfranchise your political weight is dismissing the government as a homogenous mass, moving in lock-step, that "they're all as bad as each other". Uncle Sam is _people_. Good people, bad people, influential people, less influential people.
- quanticle 12y agoThat said, I do think it is valuable to point out that while Al Franken is admonishing Uber with one hand for tracking people without permission, he's giving the NSA pats on the back with the other for doing the very same thing [1]. If anything, the NSA tracking is worse. Uber can't send me to Gitmo, but the federal government sure can. [1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/al-franken-nsa_n_3423413.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/al-franken-nsa_n_34...