Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl...
by tunesmith on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:43PM
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I wonder if that was one of those solutions that only worked because of the state of technology at the time.
We didn't need to legislate certain privacy guarantees because they were simply expected and we didn't anticipate machine learning.
Similarly, we could rely on boundaried social contexts since we didn't have the ability to look into each others lives through facebook, nextdoor, etc.
So that solution might more have been a stopgap coping mechanism to delay our need to find another better solution, like societally learning to better respect each others differing backgrounds and values.
We didn't need to legislate certain privacy guarantees because they were simply expected and we didn't anticipate machine learning.
Similarly, we could rely on boundaried social contexts since we didn't have the ability to look into each others lives through facebook, nextdoor, etc.
So that solution might more have been a stopgap coping mechanism to delay our need to find another better solution, like societally learning to better respect each others differing backgrounds and values.