This is in India, but coming soon to a country near you (or the one you are in already).
I see a lot of “camera’s in their bedroom” arguments.
That’s a bit unfair, because the Indian government doesn’t have camera’s installed in your bedroom.May I instead suggest to Indians to buy Huawei/ZTE phones, routers or camera’s in your own bedroom that point outside to public places?
I mean the public has nothing to hide right?
Right?You have nothing to hide?
I used to work in advertising.
I was just doing my job, and striving to do it well, to the very best of my abilities, to serve my client, by maximally getting into your mind, manipulating you, manipulating your perceptions, your preferences, your purchases, by insidiously shaping your associations and implanting suggestions you would not realise happening.
This was over 20 years ago, before Bill Hicks saved me by telling me to kill myself, and I left advertising for good, promising to never do it again.
The things I would have done to you, without your ken, had I then had access to the data-mining available today… … just the same as those who are still in advertising are doing to you now. [And the resources my team of 2 had, were miniscule, compared to those with millions and billions to invest, and we still managed to shape the culture and prevailing perceptions, so think what kind of influence they have…]
Nothing to hide?
Sure, let advertisers know everything about you, to ease their way playing you like a puppet without you realising.
Nothing to hide?
Why are you not walking around naked then? Just thermal regulation? Or to preserve your dignity? By preserving your privacy? Are you sure you have nothing to hide? If still sure, by all means, invite every perverted voyeur into your bathroom and bedroom and beyond.
You surely have at least two things to hide.
Not hiding them does not just harm you and cause you loss, it harms everybody else too. Your duty to poke big brother (or big baron or big bot or big blight or big bully or big bank) in the eye, is not just to yourself. It’s to everybody, each and all.
You have much to hide.
Thank you
It is almost incredible how advertising has contributed so goddamn much to the erosion of privacy. If data collection was used entirely to do things like improve aiding people (such as language learning. Many apps, like Duolingo and others absolutely use user data to improve their software and develop better ways of teaching languages) it wouldn’t be so bad. But to sell people shit? That is just disgusting.
One of many countries who have recently decided that basic liberty is more trouble than it’s worth. Our governments all just need to admit that we are engaged in informational WW3.
There is a problem… during ww2 we had the allies who fought against the Axis and eventually did want to enshrine basic freedoms (only for a few countries and selectively though). Who is fighting for us now?
China, Cuba, DPRK, Vietnam…
Ugh!
Fuck that. RFK wants me to work on his plantations for daring to be born with autism.
What about if a person working for the public sector contacts a journalist about corruption? Or if a nurse contacts a journalist on how bad a hospital (owned by public sector) is controlled? Are those things that are worth hiding? And how should a normal person hide it if everything is monitored?
And what about the future? Even if it is currently legal to be positive to radical ideas such as trans-people, immigration or environment, how will they ensure that a future government doesn’t make one of those things illegal and then comes after people who endorsed the radical idea?
Why does this meth still persist? Do people not realise that you could be doing good but the government might not want you to?
Myth* but the error is funny
Ok so let’s get those files and only redact the victims
A lot of countries are increasingly overreaching with privacy. There is global-wide coordination going on that we haven’t seen since the leftist international during Cold War, but this time it’s coming from the right.
Conservatives in the states have been saying exactly this for decades.
I’m sure they’re fine with a live camera stream of their bathroom and bedroom? If not, then they are hypocritical pieces of shit.
Everyone should be bothered by surveillance, it ain’t about wrongdoing, it’s about further empowering the people who think us suffering and dying for their profits is perfectly acceptable.
The Stasi said the same thing, and similar levels of surveillance are significantly cheaper now.
Fun fact: According to an ex-CIA spy, most spy gear that real spies use are bought directly off amazon and other online stores. While there are some guys who do craft custom items, they aren’t nearly as common or as fancy as the James Bond films.
Nothing to hide = nothing to show.
I have a lot of things I want to hide from every single government.
Damn straight. I mean people in the US who live in states were weed is legal might end up crossing statelines to places where weed is still illegal. Also many people who live in countries that have either decriminalized or legalized drugs have forgotten that possession of those drugs in other countries is often very harshly punished.
I have seen multiple accounts of Canadians and Americans going into the UAE with medicinal THC/marijuana on them and not realizing that simple possession of any of that drug is punishable by up to life in prison there. There was a guy a long time ago who was jailed for a long time for literally a microscopic bit of weed on the sole of their shoes. That last one was some utter bullshit. I live in Canada and there are TONS of marijuana smokers and THC users here, I probably have stepped on more than one thing that has had THC or weed in it, so I might have some of the stuff on my clothes/shoes without even knowing it.
“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.” ― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
