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Why I make smart devices dumber: a privacy advocate's reflection

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  1. hobbes64
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    I’m glad I read this. I think a lot about the dystopias in sci fi books and movies. A few scenes in particular in “Minority Report”: One where the main character walks into a clothing store and...

    I’m glad I read this.
    I think a lot about the dystopias in sci fi books and movies. A few scenes in particular in “Minority Report”: One where the main character walks into a clothing store and there are ad displays that recognize him and talk about his previous purchases. And another where the police send in robot drones which force each person in a building to submit to a retinal scan.

    We are in this dystopia now. We have been for at least a decade. People aren’t recognizing it or aren’t caring. And politicians are bought and regulation captured.

    It’s too bad that we’ve been warned about this shit since the 1940s and we’re just sleepwalking into hell.

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