Privacy is not worthless just being one bad actor took it. It still is worth pursuing in all layers where possible.
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DNS@discuss.online 1 day agoThese arricles are meant to be rage bait for the techno-illiterate. As you said, cell phones mapped your house long ago as well as your smart TV, or any appliance that requires an internet connection.
People traded in their privacy for convenience.
Netrunner@programming.dev 1 day ago
elephantium@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Privacy may be dead as you suggest, but that doesn’t compel me to dance on its grave.
Auli@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Phones have never mapped your house and how would they do that? Tvs don’t think it would map but yes they watch you.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
+1 Indeed!
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 day ago
Both can be true. Probably shouldn’t make a regular practice of numbing out to this sort of info with the platitude “Big deal, my phone and facebook already have my data anyway. Might as well give you my mother’s maiden name.”