Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: Time for some trustbusting

If you watch no other part of this video, skip to 18 minutes in for a discussion with a Google tech about Android privacy violation phone location tracking.

https://youtu.be/VQ8JHSOggaw

We can't have it both ways

[smittyoneeach]

Even stipulating that a company is ethical and swell, there is no guarantee that the company's "innocent" data horde cannot be plundered and abused in other contexts.

To be online is to exit the Garden of Privacy Eden.

This realization suggests that we need to give more thought to how we interact with the internet, perhaps redesigning the whole system to provide more layers of indirection to the individual.

Basically, make everything a bit TOR-ish system. (waves hands)

Which is never going to appease th

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

Yep. The very fact that there is still an expectation of privacy is laughable.