"Scared"?
Will I be "scared" if a guest at my house is live-streaming his stay to the Internet without my knowledge or approval? Hell, no. I'll be pissed.
Now, that's exactly naive, careless and fundamentally ignorant comment that the erosion of privacy is all about. You seem to genuienly think that tracking is not just acceptable, but a norm in some situatioons.
Not just several years ago if an OS or an app phoned home it was a scandal. It was commonly accepted that your gadget was yours, and anything running on it was a guest that had to follow some decency and basic etiquette norms. Theh, the push started - can we report this, just once? Can we report that, weekly? We'll call it a "telemetry", it's less scary that way. Perhaps you are getting tired of pushing OK, shall we do it automatically? OK, so we'll now just default to automatic. and make it hard to disable. Heck, we'll just build it in, because nobody now seems to be giving a fuck anyway.
But here's the best part - we now even have users who are campaigning on our behalf to not give a fuck. That's just grand.
Will I be "scared" if a guest at my house is live-streaming his stay to the Internet without my knowledge or approval? Hell, no. I'll be pissed.
Now, that's exactly naive, careless and fundamentally ignorant comment that the erosion of privacy is all about. You seem to genuienly think that tracking is not just acceptable, but a norm in some situatioons.
Not just several years ago if an OS or an app phoned home it was a scandal. It was commonly accepted that your gadget was yours, and anything running on it was a guest that had to follow some decency and basic etiquette norms. Theh, the push started - can we report this, just once? Can we report that, weekly? We'll call it a "telemetry", it's less scary that way. Perhaps you are getting tired of pushing OK, shall we do it automatically? OK, so we'll now just default to automatic. and make it hard to disable. Heck, we'll just build it in, because nobody now seems to be giving a fuck anyway.
But here's the best part - we now even have users who are campaigning on our behalf to not give a fuck. That's just grand.