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0 pointscarapace5y ago0 comments

This. Just as every obscenity filter has to have a list of obscenities to work, these creepy bastards will track you to not-track you.

We need laws. (Or just let everybody know everything: "Privacy is dead".)

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TomMarius5y ago

How will laws help against the same thing, but made by unlawful people? I think it's better to accept that privacy in the classic sense is dead and adjust.

xtian5y ago

Perhaps we could have a group of people whose job it is to investigate and prosecute unlawful behavior.

TomMarius5y ago

Luckily we already have such group - but they need tools like this to be efficient against the unlawful people wielding that technology. What now?

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carapaceOP5y ago

I think then the issue becomes what you might call differential privacy. Do the rich and powerful get to opt out? That kind of thing.

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0 pointscarapace5y ago0 comments

This. Just as every obscenity filter has to have a list of obscenities to work, these creepy bastards will track you to not-track you.

We need laws. (Or just let everybody know everything: "Privacy is dead".)

0 comments

TomMarius5y ago

How will laws help against the same thing, but made by unlawful people? I think it's better to accept that privacy in the classic sense is dead and adjust.

xtian5y ago

Perhaps we could have a group of people whose job it is to investigate and prosecute unlawful behavior.

TomMarius5y ago

Luckily we already have such group - but they need tools like this to be efficient against the unlawful people wielding that technology. What now?

2 more replies

carapaceOP5y ago

I think then the issue becomes what you might call differential privacy. Do the rich and powerful get to opt out? That kind of thing.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse