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While I'm not happy about the idea, I submit that we've tipped over a scale within technical surveillance - the same irresistible forces that are reshaping the
by trotsky 14y ago
While I'm not happy about the idea, I submit that we've tipped over a scale within technical surveillance - the same irresistible forces that are reshaping the content industries are hard at work reshaping our concepts of available privacy. It's just too cheap & easy, and getting much easier, and people want to do it (badly).
- pasbesoin 14y agoPart of a subsequent response should be transparency. For example, an organization accumulating health-related data on you should not be able to in surreptitiously influence (directly or through data brokerage) your ability to get health insurance. Such information asymmetry, in the hands of large, powerful self-interests, is something we should seek to mitigate.