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 <c...@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 -- t
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