Some idiots voluntarily give it away? Brother… we as a society moved the public common areas for discourse, entertainment, finance, and research onto a digital landscape. That landscape, in particular, is set up like as though every Roman in the fora had an invisible personal Sherlock Holmes set up to automatically dissect their footprints, fingerprints, the direction and timeliness of their stair, … and then to record it in a virtually limitless ledger where it can later be aggregated and analyzed for behavioral patterns. We aren’t giving it away anymore than the Roman commoners would have been by merely walking around town. This is a very aggressive data harvesting situation.
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verdi@feddit.org 1 day agoThe US secret service agents were being tracked with Strava… Everyone is getting fucked by the unregulated collection and use of personal data. Shit, some idiots even voluntarily give it away.
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vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 19 hours ago
Nation-states get more from this than lose. Otherwise they’d close all the shops pretty swiftly.