The only defence I can see against abuse of technology and unwarranted accumulation of knowledge about all of us is for citizens as a whole to remain alert and reject all attempts by goverment and the corporations to make taboo and / or criminalise behaviours, which they have an innate tendency towards doing in their pursuit of greater wealth, control and power.
No data should be passed to the goverment under any circumstances without a fully substantiated warrant authorised by a public jury. I do not need protecting from paedophiles, online stalkers, hackers, or al Qaeda, and accessing data by using them as a justification constitutes a far greater threat than any of them. If data is not secure from hackers, then the ISPs, MSNs, Yahoos, and Googles of this world are providing products that are not fit for purpose, and they need to fix them.
Personal liberty is more important than all the jobs in the Valley and around the world as well. So that argument holds no water either. I don't want to be contacted by third party companies, or companies I have not given specific and obvious instuction to do so. Likewise, I do not want any data about me stored, passed on, sold, or analysed in any way which is not directly necessary to provide whatever service I am engaged in using. Once my use of the service is over, data should be deleted.
I only recently got a phone with a GPS so haven't got into using location based applications yet, but they are certainly the most concerning yet. I don't like the government having the ability to track my movements and know what I'm doing based on my browsing and messaging, etc. Anybody willing to defend the accumulation of that kind of data by any body, corporate or government, has no understanding of how knowledge is power and how power corrupts, or they have a vested interest.
As for educating users about what they are giving their 'consent' to, this may be possible to some extent for some users, but, since most people have trouble remembering how to programme their in the old days video recorders now Tivo or whatever, education as a solution is also pretty much hogwash too.
There's no 'choice' not to use these services when we live in a technological age and one's ability to maintain a job and earn a wage depend on one's being technologically proficient and a user. So the idea of opting out is an illusion. And nobody has time to read or keep up with the the privacy statements which are continually changing and updating, so the idea of obtaining 'consent' is also disingenuous.
This is a redundant conversation because the corporations own the government and will never allow regulations to be passed limiting their business. The people on this panel are just creating the illusion that their is some concern, awareness, and attempt to control abuses of privacy when in fact there is none. Thier role is really just to provide reasurance to the public to facilitate the abuses of privacy which will come as soon as the cloud is fully in place and utilised.
The only defence I can see against abuse of technology and unwarranted accumulation of knowledge about all of us is for citizens as a whole to remain alert and reject all attempts by goverment and the corporations to make taboo and / or criminalise behaviours, which they have an innate tendency towards doing in their pursuit of greater wealth, control and power.
jorgesantoine24 11 months ago
No data should be passed to the goverment under any circumstances without a fully substantiated warrant authorised by a public jury. I do not need protecting from paedophiles, online stalkers, hackers, or al Qaeda, and accessing data by using them as a justification constitutes a far greater threat than any of them. If data is not secure from hackers, then the ISPs, MSNs, Yahoos, and Googles of this world are providing products that are not fit for purpose, and they need to fix them.
jorgesantoine24 11 months ago
Personal liberty is more important than all the jobs in the Valley and around the world as well. So that argument holds no water either. I don't want to be contacted by third party companies, or companies I have not given specific and obvious instuction to do so. Likewise, I do not want any data about me stored, passed on, sold, or analysed in any way which is not directly necessary to provide whatever service I am engaged in using. Once my use of the service is over, data should be deleted.
jorgesantoine24 11 months ago
I only recently got a phone with a GPS so haven't got into using location based applications yet, but they are certainly the most concerning yet. I don't like the government having the ability to track my movements and know what I'm doing based on my browsing and messaging, etc. Anybody willing to defend the accumulation of that kind of data by any body, corporate or government, has no understanding of how knowledge is power and how power corrupts, or they have a vested interest.
jorgesantoine24 11 months ago
As for educating users about what they are giving their 'consent' to, this may be possible to some extent for some users, but, since most people have trouble remembering how to programme their in the old days video recorders now Tivo or whatever, education as a solution is also pretty much hogwash too.
jorgesantoine24 11 months ago
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There's no 'choice' not to use these services when we live in a technological age and one's ability to maintain a job and earn a wage depend on one's being technologically proficient and a user. So the idea of opting out is an illusion. And nobody has time to read or keep up with the the privacy statements which are continually changing and updating, so the idea of obtaining 'consent' is also disingenuous.
jorgesantoine24 11 months ago
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jorgesantoine24 11 months ago
This is a redundant conversation because the corporations own the government and will never allow regulations to be passed limiting their business. The people on this panel are just creating the illusion that their is some concern, awareness, and attempt to control abuses of privacy when in fact there is none. Thier role is really just to provide reasurance to the public to facilitate the abuses of privacy which will come as soon as the cloud is fully in place and utilised.
jorgesantoine24 11 months ago