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Just because you don't value your privacy doesn't mean you get to project those values on the rest of us. Spying on your customers doesn't magically become mora
by pdkl95 12y ago
Just because you don't value your privacy doesn't mean you get to project those values on the rest of us. Spying on your customers doesn't magically become moral simply because technology has made it easy. It most certainly is not necessary.
Really, the only reasons surveillance as a business model has worked is most people don't realize the extent that it is going on and by the time they do a monopoly or oligopoly has already established itself. Taking advantage of ignorance is at best rude and offensive, and at worst it should be criminal.
Unfortunately, the laws have yet to catch up to abuses like Verizon's MitM rewriting of HTTP headers. Worse, fixing laws and enforcing them against these modern abuses is going to be very hard: regulatory capture's a 'helluva drug.