Comment by trinsic2

6 hours ago

They are providing the software to do surveillance, They are definetly bad actors, you can dance around this all you want, but they are in it.

It is an important distinction.

It’s the same with Facebook selling user data. Neither selling your data, like the carriers do, or selling the ability to target you with your data, like Facebook does, are very nice. But legally they are separate things that need to be regulated differently. As is the case with Flock and Palantir.

  • I'm not so sure Facebook is an apt analogy. Have we forgotten all the times Facebook has actually sold personal data?

Nice assertion. Please provide citations, substance, or anything other than “you’re wrong definitely.”