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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A centralized database of all one’s purchases, at the hands of a monopolistic corporation for now and potentially raided by governments later and hacks and breaches in the middle? No way for a fully free society to flourish or sustain under the infrastructure that we’re building.
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We had a workable model of climate change before we felt the effects. I think we know all about the consequences of totalizing surveillance infrastructure from so many examples.
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I’ve never argued that you have to care as an individual but that it’s a danger to a free society to have such centralized databases. There are lots of things that don’t matter at the individual level but do collectively. You’re making I have nothing to hide argument. Orthogonal.
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