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Re:Not OK, Google by kps on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:28PM (#12647520) 

  > ... it was creepy as all hell that the people [...] knew enough about me
No people know. Software metaphorically ‘knows’, but don't anthropomorphize it (it hates that).
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Re:Not OK, Google by Nursie on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @07:00PM (#12648703)
But it's accessible to people, that's the issue. Not my tech, but systems far away that belong to others.
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Re:Not OK, Google by mancerayder on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:33PM (#12649462)
Exactly. You're expected to naively trust 'the algorithm', because people are nowhere to be found near your supposedly anonymized data.

Speaking of which, anyone following today's stories about the Yahoo email scandal, the pressure on the folks who own Signal, and recent litigation from Microsoft against government gag orders?

But, let's go back to talking about none of us have free will and talking about how clever Now is.

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