Re:Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse
by Barrin92 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @03:16PM
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I see it this way too. For way too many people privacy seems to have turned into a kind of religious end in and of itself. I think evaluating privacy in real, material terms as in ("what actually happens to me if I gave up my privacy here, and what do I get?") makes more sense than treating it as quasi sacred.
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Re:Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse
by giobox on Thursday June 08, 2017 @04:04PM
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In countries that are signatories to the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights) it is _sacred_, given it enshrines a right to privacy in Article 8 for some 800 million people. The Court is pretty judicially active in enforcing the rule as well, even in member states that have governments with crappy human rights records like Russia.
America and a few others are arguably outliers in the western world for failing to recognize privacy, and the right to private family life, as a fundamental right in some form of constitutional legislation.
Re:Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse
by PatentTroll on Thursday June 08, 2017 @04:03PM
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What if you found out today that your neighbors have been watching you undress for the past year? In material terms, nothing has changed and there is no material harm to you, but knowledge of that level of intrusive exposure without consent is something most people object to.