> It's okay if I agree to it. That's the typical fallacy. If Chinese factory worker agrees to be exploited in conditions close to slavery doesn't mean that that kind of exploitation is "okay". Tempting people for whom…
Privacy wasn't lost to technology, nor was it given away voluntarily, at least not consciously. It was stolen by greedy corporations. Governments came second, they mostly just leverage the work of said corporations.…
Not just anonymous users. Even as a logged-in user with set preferences Google constantly knows better than you which language you want. "Oh, so you did a local search for hardware stores in insert-country-here? Well,…
Direct access is only the "most extreme possible interpretation" to a technocrat. For all ordinary people, i.e., most of the world outside HN, the "access" part is the element that constitutes the scandal. "Direct"…
The scary word here is "probably", because the government consistently refuses to release that data. Although I'm fairly confident we're gonna win the legal and political battle over that issue in time. The Dutch…
How do you know this if you haven't physically used it? And why on earth do people assume Apple hasn't thoroughly tested this? They may get many things wrong, but it's insane to thing they overlooked that part.
How would you call it there were almost half a million fully armed German troops stationed in the US? A great success for US board of tourism?
What's the "utterly implausible" part? In the past we've had verified incidents of people being refused entry because of things posted on for instance public Twitter feeds. So we know that the monitoring of social…
> mistrust of the government has extended to this industry I'm sorry, are we now taking the opportunity to blame big evil government for this? The mistrust of this industry has always existed as a completely separate…
Dutch press reported very well... on Merkel's reaction. Our own prime minister however pretends nothing is wrong, despite subsequent leaking from his own intelligence service. And with a wonderful sense of irony he…
The damage was already done well before that. Individuals may not care that much (so Facebook is relatively safe), but businesses and governments have already been well aware that storing their data in US-run services…
I agree that the one of the USA's greatest strengths is in how it welcomes immigrants. However, when it comes to actually welcoming immigrants, there are many (Western) countries where it's easier to immigrate to these…
It's bullshit blaming the EU, given that it's countries like the UK, Ireland e.a. that are pushing for all of this on order to serve their great friends the US. It's the EU that stands between us and corrupt national…
No, there's really nothing suspicious about the almost instant complete mass denial. It sometimes takes months for these companies to come up with a full public statement on any privacy scandal. The process of getting…
> It's okay if I agree to it. That's the typical fallacy. If Chinese factory worker agrees to be exploited in conditions close to slavery doesn't mean that that kind of exploitation is "okay". Tempting people for whom…
Privacy wasn't lost to technology, nor was it given away voluntarily, at least not consciously. It was stolen by greedy corporations. Governments came second, they mostly just leverage the work of said corporations.…
Not just anonymous users. Even as a logged-in user with set preferences Google constantly knows better than you which language you want. "Oh, so you did a local search for hardware stores in insert-country-here? Well,…
Direct access is only the "most extreme possible interpretation" to a technocrat. For all ordinary people, i.e., most of the world outside HN, the "access" part is the element that constitutes the scandal. "Direct"…
The scary word here is "probably", because the government consistently refuses to release that data. Although I'm fairly confident we're gonna win the legal and political battle over that issue in time. The Dutch…
How do you know this if you haven't physically used it? And why on earth do people assume Apple hasn't thoroughly tested this? They may get many things wrong, but it's insane to thing they overlooked that part.
How would you call it there were almost half a million fully armed German troops stationed in the US? A great success for US board of tourism?
What's the "utterly implausible" part? In the past we've had verified incidents of people being refused entry because of things posted on for instance public Twitter feeds. So we know that the monitoring of social…
> mistrust of the government has extended to this industry I'm sorry, are we now taking the opportunity to blame big evil government for this? The mistrust of this industry has always existed as a completely separate…
Dutch press reported very well... on Merkel's reaction. Our own prime minister however pretends nothing is wrong, despite subsequent leaking from his own intelligence service. And with a wonderful sense of irony he…
The damage was already done well before that. Individuals may not care that much (so Facebook is relatively safe), but businesses and governments have already been well aware that storing their data in US-run services…
I agree that the one of the USA's greatest strengths is in how it welcomes immigrants. However, when it comes to actually welcoming immigrants, there are many (Western) countries where it's easier to immigrate to these…
It's bullshit blaming the EU, given that it's countries like the UK, Ireland e.a. that are pushing for all of this on order to serve their great friends the US. It's the EU that stands between us and corrupt national…
No, there's really nothing suspicious about the almost instant complete mass denial. It sometimes takes months for these companies to come up with a full public statement on any privacy scandal. The process of getting…