On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 04:09:39AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 3:53 AM George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> wrote:
Is telemetry evil? Are guns evil? Philosophical questions?
I find it objectionable when people gather "telemetry" about "me" and not just the causes of the "blue screens of death".
I find it objectionable when people gather personal "telemetry" and then on sell that information to others for whatever purposes, whether it is to target me with ads, or political analysts like Cambridge Analytica, or to alter my "Social Credit
Score", or to be used to cancel my Credit Cards, or for whatever other purpose.
For those interested in reading more, pick up a copy of Shoshana
Zuboff's book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a
Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (<https://www.amazon.com//dp/1610395697> and <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism>).
Thanks for that ref. One of the most important books for our
trade, indeed.
If possible, don't buy it at Amazon :-)
Cheers
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