Building the infrastructure of a horrid surveillance state, having your shopping habits be used to target you (they reveal a lot) or to discriminate collectively (recent paper: they predict diabetes rates) and for social control. Let it be opt-in and see how few join voluntarily.
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100 percent will eventually be used to blackmail people when it leaks or someone hacks someone else’s account. Of course they bury its existence.
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Replying to @antoniogm @MikeIsaac
Sticks vs guns vs nuclear weapons. Scale, efficacy and scope matter.
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That’s exactly how it’s like pollution. It makes sense personally to have a car that accelerates better even if it pollutes more. But it’s a terrible thing for a society to have all cars pollute a bit more, and for a society to have a centralized database of everyone’s shopping.
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And that’s why they may be able to get consent, just the way people would consent to slightly faster cars. But then we’d have no clean air anywhere.
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