Re:Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising
by chopin on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @10:12AM
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The analogy breaks at the point "won't enter your home". Current surveillance tech does exactly the analogous of that. It's rather like having a cop sitting at home pinky-promising not to listen or storing any conversation.
Maybe it's even worse. There are third-party analytics tools which send out any key-stroke you do, even if you don't submit any form.
It has become the new normal. Take todays article in Ars Technica on Audacity (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audac...). The author has no complaint about the fact that a tool for local editing of audio files reaches out to the internet to send data about the user and seemingly defends this on grounds that it is opt-in. That's fine but that code is needlessly there. There's no reason whatsoever for it. And I am tired of being told that surveillance is for my benefit. No, it's not. It's solely for the benefit of the surveillor.
Re:Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising
by djbebs on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @12:11PM
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Oh no, hes going to be reading every email you send and receive, every message and everything you do. D9nt worry though, he wont do anything unless he finds anything illegal.
Re:Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising
by markzzerella on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @11:59AM
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If metadata is good enough to kill people it's dangerous enough to stop collecting en masse.
This is essentially what is going on in the internet. Metadata collection = Surveillance.