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by 908087 8y ago
Syncing data to your phone doesn't require sending that data to a third party.
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by 908087 8y ago
So that the manufacturer can extract additional money from your pocket by proxy after selling access to you to their "partners". "Log in with facebook to see your temperature" I wonder if there's a "share temp
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by 908087 8y ago
It's always best to assume that any device billed as "smart" is actually intended as an advertising surveillance tool.
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by 908087 8y ago
I'd do it the same way the US government has been doing it: Allow massive corporations such as Google/Facebook/Amazon free reign to spy on the entire population, then share in their spoils courtesy of the third party doctrine
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by 908087 8y ago
It's only a matter of time before "smart" TV manufacturers work out a deal with Comcast to use their wifi hotspots, or install 4G connectivity and have their televisions automatically connect with no option for the "owne
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by 908087 8y ago
Also behavior that happens to be inconvenient to Google's bottom line, I'd imagine.
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by 908087 8y ago
"Fairness" as defined by Google. Ethically bankrupt advertising corporations have no business teaching people about ethics.
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by 908087 8y ago
"Move fast and break people" isn't an acceptable way forward.
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by 908087 8y ago
I'd argue that things like "likes" have created an environment where people generally publish what they think other people would want them to say (e.g. things that will be "rewarded" with internet points), rather th
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by 908087 8y ago
Most farmers I know have far more respect for their livestock than FB do for their "users".
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by 908087 8y ago
Is Facebook going to foot the bill?
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by 908087 8y ago
Google has done a great job of spinning this as "unexploited". The reality of it is (if you take them at their word and believe they only kept 2 weeks of logs "because privacy", which is suspicious for a company that th
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by 908087 8y ago
It's almost like listening to a captive cult member decry the "evil that lies outside of these walls". The idea that people who criticize an advertising/surveillance corporation worth several hundred billion dollars are
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by 908087 8y ago
Whoever wrote this comes off like an angry 13 year old fanboy/girl with the "evil Google haters" BS.
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by 908087 8y ago
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo... https://pando.com/2015/07/01/cia-foia-google-keyhole/ Search "In-Q-Tel Google" for more.
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by 908087 8y ago
Google has been caught serving malware / malicious ads numerous times, IIRC. Here are a couple incidents I found with a quick search: https://www.wired.com/2010/12/doubleclick/ https://www.fa
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by 908087 8y ago
Just a reminder to those of you who are (rightfully) trying to avoid feeding the beast that is Facebook: Oculus is Facebook
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by 908087 8y ago
"Don't be evil" was one of the most successful pieces of feel good propaganda I've ever seen from any corporation. People still regularly quote it as "proof" that Google is an altruistic entity which only spie
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by 908087 8y ago
> According to one Larry loyalist, Page’s privacy, besides being a personal preference, is also a carefully considered company strategy. That's gold, given the fact that his company has set out to completely destroy the concept of p
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by 908087 8y ago
You can't see any path upon which allowing a massive advertising corporation to gain majority control of and lead in the AOLification of the web/internet could be damaging to future generations?
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by 908087 8y ago
Those sound more like things that would be important to someone who joined Google because it paid well and offered "interesting" coworkers and tasks, not someone who (naively) joined Google to "make the world a better place&q
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by 908087 8y ago
> Google is really losing its way. You sure about that? To me, it looks more like Google has just become emboldened enough to start openly abusing their position to gain control of the web. This has always been Google's way, it&#x2
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by 908087 8y ago
Have you put any consideration into the fact that your children might grow up and be rather unhappy to find out that their parents created a permanent photo/comment record of their life on the servers of an advertising corporation? I&#
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by 908087 8y ago
Your argument is that I'm wrong because of some theoretical situation which hasn't happened, and would be near impossible for ISPs to implement without massive backlash from pretty much the entire internet/world?
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by 908087 8y ago
Not sure if you're trying to be intentionally misleading to "win" an argument here, but look at the stats for the top 1M, 100k, and 10k sites if you want to be honest about the portion of actual web traffic Google is able to
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by 908087 8y ago
DNS requests only give the hostname. Google/Facebook's analytics services get them pretty much everything about the users' interactions with sites that include them. I'm not arguing that ISPs aren't a privacy risk
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by 908087 8y ago
Masnick took what could have been a great piece to use against telcos, and turned it into an embarrassing attempt to defend Google/Facebook at all costs. His claim that Google and Facebook know less about you than your ISP would requi
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by 908087 8y ago
The key here being "according to the company". This is the same company that has been working with law enforcement to prevent them from even disclosing their use of these devices to the courts or defendants. Is that a company yo
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by 908087 8y ago
This isn't what I'd call "the cure", though. This is the "privacy" equivalent of those bullshit cancer "cures" that prey on poorly informed or desperate people.
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by 908087 8y ago
It responds by profiling, grooming and manipulating them from a very young age. "Aww look, my 3 year old is having a conversation with a massive advertising corporation, and has begun talking to human beings the same way he talks to an

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