Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr...
by dahart on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:43PM
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> I just don't want to be tracked, ever, for any reason, by anyone.
Curious what this means to you in practice? I'm trying to imagine what zero tracking looks like... and wondering if I misunderstand what you mean by "ever, for any reason, by anyone." or if you're really serious about your wish and mean it as literally as it sounds.
You don't want your doctor to have records of your previous visits? (Prefer to be offered the Covid Vaccine every time from now on?) You don't want the ability to have any personal bank / investment accounts? Our HN account & posts are being "tracked", what's an alternative to this discussion? How should governments manage the basics of things like social security or driver's licenses? How would anyone even contact you or employ you without some kind of telephone number or internet address that can be tracked? How would you find gainful employment, and do you want to re-negotiate your compensation daily?
Framing all information storage as "tracking" and all information retrieval as "surveillance" seems to turn a blind eye to the many benefits we enjoy, while stoking a general and vague fear. I think I'm more privacy conscious than most, and I think we have some massive privacy issues at the moment, but I have to recognize the benefits I enjoy at the same time and seek to find a reasonable and practical balance. So, I accept some tracking, and what I want is always opt-in by default and control over who tracks what.
Curious what this means to you in practice? I'm trying to imagine what zero tracking looks like... and wondering if I misunderstand what you mean by "ever, for any reason, by anyone." or if you're really serious about your wish and mean it as literally as it sounds.
You don't want your doctor to have records of your previous visits? (Prefer to be offered the Covid Vaccine every time from now on?) You don't want the ability to have any personal bank / investment accounts? Our HN account & posts are being "tracked", what's an alternative to this discussion? How should governments manage the basics of things like social security or driver's licenses? How would anyone even contact you or employ you without some kind of telephone number or internet address that can be tracked? How would you find gainful employment, and do you want to re-negotiate your compensation daily?
Framing all information storage as "tracking" and all information retrieval as "surveillance" seems to turn a blind eye to the many benefits we enjoy, while stoking a general and vague fear. I think I'm more privacy conscious than most, and I think we have some massive privacy issues at the moment, but I have to recognize the benefits I enjoy at the same time and seek to find a reasonable and practical balance. So, I accept some tracking, and what I want is always opt-in by default and control over who tracks what.