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Re:Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising by jefftk on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @01:23PM (#27763562)
Let's say a streaming music service collects information on what you have listened to and how long. Is that surveillance? What if they use it to back a page where you can see what you've been listening to recently? If they start recommending new artists based on your listening history?
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Re:Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising by _proofs on Thursday July 08, 2021 @03:00PM (#27776333)
this is by definition surveillance -- a "...monitoring of behavior, activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, managing, or directing." [0]

to possibly downplay it or imply otherwise because the collected information may (or may not) benefit the user is just spin.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance

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Re:Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising by matheusmoreira on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @07:17PM (#27766856)
Nothing inherently wrong with those features. The problem is some corporation owns this data, not us. It would be fine if it was some local software instead.
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