That's the only thing George Orwell got wrong: he envisioned surveillance conducted by the state - i.e. a communist dictatorship, but what we end up with today is surveillance conducted by late-stage capitalist monopolies in cahoots with the state - i.e. a fascist dictatorship.

Either way, it's a dictatorship.

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4am 5 points 5 days ago

It’s almost like the demonization of the economic theory that kept men from gaining power arbitrarily though riches had nothing to do with the universal evil that is authoritarianism and that it was all a ruse to allow the most sinister men to rise to power through whatever subterfuge they could muster 🤔

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ExtremeDullard 2 points 5 days ago

you don’t have the right to make us

Apparently they just take the left.

I don't think the surveillance capitalists are asking for your opinion...

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garretble 28 points 5 days ago

Make it 0 seconds and we still don’t have a deal.

Cut the poles down.

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ExtremeDullard 15 points 5 days ago

I find it fascinating that in today's world, private companies are allowed to decide how long they want to keep the entire populace under surveillance, just like that, without any laws or any judge involved, without the entire thing instantly turning into a giant scandal or people rioting in the street over it.

As a gen-Xer who has known a world where privacy actually meant something people deeply cared about, the world we live in today is frighteningly dystopian.

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prole 15 points 5 days ago

Lol right.

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TIEPilot 12 points 5 days ago

Sh'yeah and monkeys might fly out off my butt.

https://youtu.be/QOKociU8t_Q

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Abyssian 12 points 3 days ago

Of course they'll only keep the data 7 days now. Just like they were really only keeping it for 30 days before. They've shown how trustworthy they are.

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jontree255 9 points 3 days ago

Not enough. Take them down permanently and block whatever shitass replacement they’re going to try to put up that doesn’t draw as much attention.

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stopforgettingit 7 points 5 days ago

BUT, if you pay for this premium you add on, you get the expanded storage capacity

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Cornpop 7 points 3 days ago

There’s 0 chance of that actually happening.

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MonkderVierte 5 points 3 days ago

Flock and privacy? Not two words i would put together.

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muusemuuse 3 points 3 days ago

I’m sure this will only be the default in demos

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HeyJoe 3 points 5 days ago

Data should not be sold or used outside its 1 purpose. It should not be available to the original company at all to look at or have access to. Accessing data should only be allowed through court issued warrants and only on the devices in the proximity and time of the incident. As someone who is an admin to systems that deal with patient data information I can tell you without a doubt we dont even have access to this data, just the setup of everything else around it. It also has a full audit log of everyone who even views the data. This isnt anything new, they just decided to change the rules to see how far they can get away with doing whatever they want for personal gain.

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phutatorius 1 point 3 days ago

You can ringfence it all you like and keep your MBAs entertained working out separation of responsibilities. But anyone with root can bypass any audit log. And someone always has root.

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phutatorius 1 point 3 days ago

Despite its many flaws, the US needs GDPR-like regulations.

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HeyJoe 1 point 2 days ago

When GDPR was becoming big we adopted the standard over a year of figuring out what was needed to be done and implementing it. We wanted to be on top of it because we thought it would become the standard. So we are compliant and a US based company.

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YouTalkinToMe 2 points 3 days ago

Unless you buy the premium subscription, I assume.

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Malyca 1 point 3 days ago

They could say anything and it wouldn't matter because they've destroyed public trust by lying in the first place. There's no saving this shit it's gotta go.

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