Re:A Texting Truth Often Forgotten in Politics: Your Phone R...
by dredmorbius on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:12AM
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Aggregation and volume itself is dangerous.
My challenge to the Surveillance Business Sector (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, banking, etc.) is to figure out how to offer services with minimal, or better, zero, user tracking. That's challenging, as even incidental signatures leave traces, but what's currently happening is, IMO, either untenable or leads to quite horrible things.
Consider: in a world in which any conceivable piece of information is available on a person, then any conceivable claim becomes credible. It's McCarthy's "binders" on steroids. Insinuation alone can be devastating.
On the matter of "collecting only the necessary data" for a given transaction, there's a post I tried submitting on Ello (oddly: specific content seems to break their submissions, they're aware of this) of my experience clicking on "log in via Google+" on TypePad.
For the service of authenticating to TypePad, I was expected to divluge:
1. All people in my Circles. Including non-public Circles.
2. My own demographics.
3. My email address.
4. Permission to "manage" my Google profile.
Under what Orwellian Hell would I provide access to my entire damned Google profile to some third party for the ability to post a comment on a blog?
Who possibly, at TypePad, or Google, possibly thought this was a good idea?
(I've got quite the rant written on this, waiting for Ello to fix their bug so I can post it.)
My challenge to the Surveillance Business Sector (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, banking, etc.) is to figure out how to offer services with minimal, or better, zero, user tracking. That's challenging, as even incidental signatures leave traces, but what's currently happening is, IMO, either untenable or leads to quite horrible things.
Consider: in a world in which any conceivable piece of information is available on a person, then any conceivable claim becomes credible. It's McCarthy's "binders" on steroids. Insinuation alone can be devastating.
On the matter of "collecting only the necessary data" for a given transaction, there's a post I tried submitting on Ello (oddly: specific content seems to break their submissions, they're aware of this) of my experience clicking on "log in via Google+" on TypePad.
For the service of authenticating to TypePad, I was expected to divluge:
1. All people in my Circles. Including non-public Circles.
2. My own demographics.
3. My email address.
4. Permission to "manage" my Google profile.
Under what Orwellian Hell would I provide access to my entire damned Google profile to some third party for the ability to post a comment on a blog?
Who possibly, at TypePad, or Google, possibly thought this was a good idea?
(I've got quite the rant written on this, waiting for Ello to fix their bug so I can post it.)