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by caskance 11y ago
As you yourself agree, the laws here are asinine. So unless you're actually going to get into legal trouble over it (spoiler alert: you're not) why does it matter whether your preferred solution follows them?
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by caskance 11y ago
Password managers work well for one person using one account. When multiple people are in the picture, everyone has different sets of passwords that are sometimes appropriate to share and sometimes not. Account information for a netflix-lik
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by caskance 11y ago
Speak for yourself. I'll use whatever service is better. The money itself is not enough to really notice for things like this, but services you don't have to pay for consequently don't require any account management, so it&#x
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by caskance 11y ago
They can use your searches any way they want to. If you don't like it, don't use google - or if it's bad enough, you can try an antitrust lawsuit, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
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by caskance 11y ago
It is justification for being a workaholic.
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by caskance 11y ago
It doesn't sound like you do understand the point of the list then. The point is not that any particular issue is unsolvable or even difficult. It's that laymen eagerly suggest naive solutions without even realizing that these iss
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by caskance 11y ago
That's the whole point of that list. Transitioning from illegal to legal is complicated in ways that don't affect things like coffee that have always been legal - and therefore, many people don't think about, claiming it will
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by caskance 11y ago
Of course I am. That's the only kind of right it is possible for non-lawyers to have a discussion about, since legal rights either exist or don't.
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by caskance 11y ago
They can regulate whatever they want. Tomorrow they might pass a law that makes it illegal to display the Google logo. That has no impact on Google's rights. In some countries, women are not allowed to leave the house unless accompanie
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by caskance 11y ago
Not as impressed as I am in your ability to imagine arguments where none exist.
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by caskance 11y ago
Since when is that the only item in the set of "things where the potential for abuse is incredibly easy to imagine"?
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by caskance 11y ago
You could not pay them enough for that. The mere presence of a pay to opt out feature devalues all the other data they collect on people who don't pay. It's the number one law of inescapable advertising. The more people are willin
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by caskance 11y ago
People in power by definition have that capability. That's what it means to be in power.
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by caskance 11y ago
Lack of rye bread, corned beef, and sauerkraut. You've failed to assemble a reuben sandwich.
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by caskance 11y ago
If the police found out about a meeting to discuss a bank robbery, the police could look up the CCTV camera data, combine with face recognition, etc, and find out who was at the meeting. There is a long history of arresting bank robbers.
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by caskance 11y ago
So don't be even a little bit paranoid. If you'd be even a little bit racist, you wouldn't be OK with miscegenation. Only someone starting from the premise that miscegenation is bad would conclude that this statement means th
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by caskance 11y ago
The whole reason companies as big as Facebook and Google can exist is because this surveillance provides huge benefits.
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by caskance 11y ago
Oh no, people are wanting and getting things you don't approve of. How terrible.
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by caskance 11y ago
No, it is quite simple. You should not gain any right to control information just because the information happens to be about you.
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by caskance 11y ago
As long as the "right to be forgotten" exists, that will never happen.
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by caskance 11y ago
So does that mean those of us in favor of "dragnet traffic looking for people who want to blow up civilians with homemade bombs" are allowed to be gleeful here? There is no such thing as private data. There is secret data, but tha
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by caskance 11y ago
No, but the kind of person who writes things like that never leaves his basement anyway, so he doesn't need a valid passport.
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by caskance 11y ago
They all are. That's the whole point of the comic.
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by caskance 11y ago
Nothing in your link supports that assertion.
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by caskance 11y ago
AKA if you must meddle, at least do it smartly.
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by caskance 11y ago
You sound like the kind of person who also thought everyone would voluntarily move to IPv6 in a timely manner.
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by caskance 11y ago
How is it different? Either way, you're doing what he/she tells you to out of fear, and all your other employees resent the shit out of him/her for it.
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by caskance 11y ago
The same thing any compliance officer does anywhere. Whether you have one because you're legally required to or you have one because you don't want to risk getting fined or sued isn't really a meaningful difference.
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by caskance 11y ago
Before, they only thought they were the best country in the world. Now, they can "know" it - as filtered by the great firewall, anyway.
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by caskance 11y ago
You are missing the point. As far as digital surveillance goes, the US already does much more than China.

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