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Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. Right now it's Orwellian and sophisticated-- if they have Amazon's level of data crunching and prediction ability, they mig
by cryoshon 12y ago
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head.
Right now it's Orwellian and sophisticated-- if they have Amazon's level of data crunching and prediction ability, they might be able to predict certain things about you, and, on average, be more right than wrong.
Wait until they have 20 more years of data on you, and 20 more years of advancing the quality of their algorithms and machine intelligences. You will be owned, and your buttons will be pushed as necessary to maintain what has already been built.
- LLWM 12y agoAnd the same will be true of all the billions of people that you think are making bad decisions today.
- EdSharkey 12y agoThis dragnet collection and _permanent storage_ of all movement and communications data is not justifiable, though. Fundamental risk assessment fail!
- LLWM 12y agoAs the cost of doing so diminishes, so does the requirement for justification. These days, the only noticeable cost is psychological. IMO, sufficiently justified by "we might need it one day". Of course, 20 years ago, or even 5 years ago, that wouldn't have been true, and that's the mindset most critics are coming from. That you need a really strong reason to be doing some kind of mass data collection like this. I just don't agree with that claim. If you can do it, you'd be stupid not to.