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Re:Apple Is Normalising Surveillance by lallysingh on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:04AM (#29000525)
Agreed. The article is a giant stretch of logic from the start. There's this at the bottom, though, that I think is worth reading:

> All tech giants share a desire to digitise the world. What is left unsaid by Apple and others is that digitising the world entails surveilling it: recording everything, making it taggable, trackable, searchable – and hackable. Of course, asking tech companies not to digitise the world is like asking builders not to pave over natural areas. Unless society sets limits, that is not going to happen. That’s why governments create protected areas when it comes to building.

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Re:Apple Is Normalising Surveillance by chiefalchemist on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:09AM (#29000596)
That last sentence is key. Of course governments are concerned, Big Tech is nudging gov out of the way. BT is becoming the collecting and controlling force.

I'm not suggesting one is better or worse than the other. But there is a subplot, and it's about control.

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