Re:Am I the only one who doesn't care about Facebook?
by portLAN on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:02AM
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I care about it in the sense that it's a privacy nightmare. That's why I don't use it.
They are getting people to voluntarily do what they couldn't compel them to do through legislative means: build dossiers on themselves and submit them to a corporation; and thanks to recent anti-terror acts of dubious constitutionality, government will be able to look at that information when they want to. Combine with Twitter for play-by-play of your whereabouts and actions, and Loopt to geolocate you everywhere you go.
It's a surveillance society that the innocent invited upon themselves uncynically.
They are getting people to voluntarily do what they couldn't compel them to do through legislative means: build dossiers on themselves and submit them to a corporation; and thanks to recent anti-terror acts of dubious constitutionality, government will be able to look at that information when they want to. Combine with Twitter for play-by-play of your whereabouts and actions, and Loopt to geolocate you everywhere you go.
It's a surveillance society that the innocent invited upon themselves uncynically.