Comment by 7952
1 year ago
I agree with the worry about surveillance. But isn't this really a continuation of how car makers treat their customers and the public generally. Cars companies comprimise privacy in the same way that they willingly comprimise safety, public health and the environment. It is the result of a broken culture and naive to expect them to change.
I think it's a mistake to frame it that way. Collecting and selling data is essentially ubiquitous among companies with access to harvestable data. ISPs, cell providers, smart tv manufacturers, and so on are not broadly associated with some specific historic cultural or urban planning failing. They're companies with access to an additional revenue stream, and nearly any company that can will make the same decision.