In the case of Seymour v. Colorado, Denver police executed a search warrant that required Google to provide the IP addresses of anyone who had searched for...
@knexcar@throws_lemy@Clent Maybe you won’t face a problem with law enforcement caused by some company sharing your data with the law enforcement. On an individual level, yeah sure, you probably won’t get affected. But on a societal level, do we accept having some people’s lives ruined by these techniques? I don’t think so.
In general, is it acceptable that we give some for-profit companies full access to our data so they can manipulate our buying behaviors with their targeted ads?
That’s fair, we as a society are probably manipulated quite a lot. though I feel like law enforcement getting cases wrong is a somewhat separate issue from the “targeted ads” one. The alternative would be to use shittier evidence, potentially racism, or just let it go unsolved. I hate ads too and I block them so I don’t have to see them. I guess I’m tired that 1/3 of Lemmy posts seem to be about privacy/FOSS, I wish there was more variety like the R-site.
@knexcar @throws_lemy @Clent Maybe you won’t face a problem with law enforcement caused by some company sharing your data with the law enforcement. On an individual level, yeah sure, you probably won’t get affected. But on a societal level, do we accept having some people’s lives ruined by these techniques? I don’t think so.
In general, is it acceptable that we give some for-profit companies full access to our data so they can manipulate our buying behaviors with their targeted ads?
That’s fair, we as a society are probably manipulated quite a lot. though I feel like law enforcement getting cases wrong is a somewhat separate issue from the “targeted ads” one. The alternative would be to use shittier evidence, potentially racism, or just let it go unsolved. I hate ads too and I block them so I don’t have to see them. I guess I’m tired that 1/3 of Lemmy posts seem to be about privacy/FOSS, I wish there was more variety like the R-site.