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Re:Google releases smart watch for kids by sebtron on Thursday May 30, 2024 @01:25AM (#40520360)
I am wondering if we are raising a generation of people find it completely normal to be tracked all the time.

How can we complain when our governmets do the same to us?

Re:Google releases smart watch for kids by iiio8 on Thursday May 30, 2024 @01:38AM (#40520436)
I wonder that too, but I think you are at least one generation too late with this. Your average phone already tracks where you go, with whom you interact, what you search for online. It asks you "how was this restaurant?" and reminds you what you did last year at this time.

There is a miniscule minority of folks who care and disable as much of that as they can, but the vast majority doesn't know how and doesn't care. I even know lots of people who work in the industry and just don't bother disabling any of this because they claim it's all unavoidable anyway, and they are probably right. Oh and they had that attitude already 10-15 years ago.

So, this is already a thing if the past. And we are at a point were even if your devices are not tracking you then everything around you is. Each Tesla parked on the roadside films you when you walk by. Each phone close by tracks that your phone is close by. And nobody cares. Heck, people argue it's for the better, imagine somebody getting raped, so good we have lots of cameras close by to find the bad guy! As if society is any safer for it than 30 years ago

Re:Google releases smart watch for kids by loteck on Thursday May 30, 2024 @01:58AM (#40520546)
Sorry but this is just fatalistic nonsense. A generation ago people did not have anything like the current evolution of surveillance technology. The small number of people who care about ubiquitous surveillance right now are early adopters, not a dying breed.