Re:Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores
by noonespecial on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:38AM
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>No human will ever see my individual data in all likelihood.
What matters to me is not the likelihood, but the possibility. Can someone who wants to at a later date, "pull my file" and see it all.
If its true then what we have is a classic example of the panopticon. They can't watch everybody all the time, but they can watch anybody whenever they want, even retroactively. That's bad news.
What matters to me is not the likelihood, but the possibility. Can someone who wants to at a later date, "pull my file" and see it all.
If its true then what we have is a classic example of the panopticon. They can't watch everybody all the time, but they can watch anybody whenever they want, even retroactively. That's bad news.