Bullshit. I've read the HIPPA disclosures from a major couple major hospital systems. They explicitly state that they WILL share your "private" data with the pigglies, Uncle Sam, insurance companies, and pretty much any other evil institution that asks.
The only group who are prevented by HIPPA from accessing your medical data are... medical researchers. You know, the one group that most people *want* their data shared with.
HIPPA is a crock of shit. It does very very very little of benefit to patients. But it created a ton of cushy bureaucrat and lawyer jobs for members of the nomenklatura class.
All the semi-official propaganda organs are really getting their knickers in a twist over this Cambridge Analytical scandal. But the funny thing is, this is 100% business as usual for Facebook.
The problem is not a couple bad apples at Cambridge Analytica. The real problem is panoptic Big Brother surveillance and the culture that considers it lawful and ethically acceptable. The problem is Facebook itself.
Don't worry - in Surveillance Valley you're part of the nomenklatura demographic. Big Brother is more likely to send you a job offer than send the Stasi knocking.
But yes, anyone who is even a little outside the media-manufactured cultural norm is put at risk by panoptic surveillance.
Billy, Billy, Billy.... What is this? Misspelling the President's name isn't proper *trolling* - that's just lazy. You don't really expect Shareblue to pay your $0.50 for *that*, do you?
If you self-righteously shaft enough people and destroy their livelihoods, eventually one of them will shoot at you.
Corollary: if a monopolistic tech company want to ape the behavior of an oppressive tyrannical government, that tech company may also need to adopt the physical security posture of a hated antidemocratic regime.
Don't worry tho - the new Google Green Zone (tm) will have all modern conveniences. Once you've passed through the sandbags, barbed wire, and machine gun nests - and of course, submitted to your mandatory cavity check - inside they will have *both* Starbucks and Peet's. For all your nasty burnt coffee needs!
Civil war between whom? Seriously. That's just stupid. To have a civil war you need two clearly defined sides. The United States is not even close to that kind of situation.
So how about revolution then? Well it sounds nice - very heroic, like Lenin and Castro and Ho Chi Minh. But what ideology will be behind this revolution? Marxism-Leninism? Yeah, good luck with that, it's 60+ years out of date and was never popular here anyways. Strict Constitutionalism? That wouldn't be much of a revolution, now would it?
Do YOU have an ideology that is going to lead our country to freedom, prosperity, and happiness? Well put it forward!
But you're not going to. Because you're an employee of a Chinese- or Russian-bankrolled troll factory. You have no actual interest in American politics. The hard questions of political philosophy are WAY out of your league. But hey, you get paid $0.50 for every post whipping up civil unrest in the States.
Awwwww... someone offended Billy at Shareblue. I guess it must really suck when even the people to whom you show the most irrational favoritism, consider you a villain fit to be wiped from the face of the Earth.
Remember when you Progressive tools told us classical small-L liberals to pack up our culture of tolerance and go get fucked? Well yeah, brohan, you stooges just discovered that there are *other* violently intolerant assmunches out there. Have fun!
If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. Uncle Sam... er, I mean, "advertisers" just NEED to know when you're using your flashlight. It's for your own good. Think of the children!
I've noticed something about "consent". The louder and more frequently a person or a company talks about "consent", the more that person or company likes raping people.
It's a little worrying that some of the companies with the most advanced AI research are actively hostile to privacy and freedom. Everyone knows this is going to end in a horrific disaster - it's kinda obvious. Yet seemingly many people consider the prospect of slightly cheaper taxi rides to be totally worth the risk.
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Bullshit. I've read the HIPPA disclosures from a major couple major hospital systems. They explicitly state that they WILL share your "private" data with the pigglies, Uncle Sam, insurance companies, and pretty much any other evil institution that asks.
The only group who are prevented by HIPPA from accessing your medical data are... medical researchers. You know, the one group that most people *want* their data shared with.
HIPPA is a crock of shit. It does very very very little of benefit to patients. But it created a ton of cushy bureaucrat and lawyer jobs for members of the nomenklatura class.
All the semi-official propaganda organs are really getting their knickers in a twist over this Cambridge Analytical scandal. But the funny thing is, this is 100% business as usual for Facebook.
The problem is not a couple bad apples at Cambridge Analytica. The real problem is panoptic Big Brother surveillance and the culture that considers it lawful and ethically acceptable. The problem is Facebook itself.
"a queer leftist atheist"
Don't worry - in Surveillance Valley you're part of the nomenklatura demographic. Big Brother is more likely to send you a job offer than send the Stasi knocking.
But yes, anyone who is even a little outside the media-manufactured cultural norm is put at risk by panoptic surveillance.
#dunce
Google's panopticon means the Stasi know every detail of my life.
Billy, Billy, Billy.... What is this? Misspelling the President's name isn't proper *trolling* - that's just lazy. You don't really expect Shareblue to pay your $0.50 for *that*, do you?
Uh-oh, someone is up past their bedtime and getting cranky!
What the fuck do you think is happening in Syria right now?
A successful regional destabilization campaign that provoked a bit of a proxy war.
If by "obvious" you mean "obviously stupid".
Moral of the story:
If you self-righteously shaft enough people and destroy their livelihoods, eventually one of them will shoot at you.
Corollary: if a monopolistic tech company want to ape the behavior of an oppressive tyrannical government, that tech company may also need to adopt the physical security posture of a hated antidemocratic regime.
Don't worry tho - the new Google Green Zone (tm) will have all modern conveniences. Once you've passed through the sandbags, barbed wire, and machine gun nests - and of course, submitted to your mandatory cavity check - inside they will have *both* Starbucks and Peet's. For all your nasty burnt coffee needs!
Civil war between whom? Seriously. That's just stupid. To have a civil war you need two clearly defined sides. The United States is not even close to that kind of situation.
So how about revolution then? Well it sounds nice - very heroic, like Lenin and Castro and Ho Chi Minh. But what ideology will be behind this revolution? Marxism-Leninism? Yeah, good luck with that, it's 60+ years out of date and was never popular here anyways. Strict Constitutionalism? That wouldn't be much of a revolution, now would it?
Do YOU have an ideology that is going to lead our country to freedom, prosperity, and happiness? Well put it forward!
But you're not going to. Because you're an employee of a Chinese- or Russian-bankrolled troll factory. You have no actual interest in American politics. The hard questions of political philosophy are WAY out of your league. But hey, you get paid $0.50 for every post whipping up civil unrest in the States.
Awwwww... someone offended Billy at Shareblue. I guess it must really suck when even the people to whom you show the most irrational favoritism, consider you a villain fit to be wiped from the face of the Earth.
Remember when you Progressive tools told us classical small-L liberals to pack up our culture of tolerance and go get fucked? Well yeah, brohan, you stooges just discovered that there are *other* violently intolerant assmunches out there. Have fun!
Disarm the plebs! Down with freedom and democracy!
If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. Uncle Sam... er, I mean, "advertisers" just NEED to know when you're using your flashlight. It's for your own good. Think of the children!
Broham, our Stalin-sized Gulag and the coerced-false-confession kangaroo courts that created it beat anything the krauts had.
A weird unholy mix of puritanism and stalinism.
I've noticed something about "consent". The louder and more frequently a person or a company talks about "consent", the more that person or company likes raping people.
Have patience, it will happen.
Make the right to privacy unwaivable. Just because we have a terrible legal system now, doesn't mean the law HAS TO be evil.
Whenever I hear the words "common sense" in a political discussion, I know I'm listening to an idiot telling a lie.
Gulag FTW!
Better empty the truck fast. When it detected your robbery it called in a drone strike.
It's a little worrying that some of the companies with the most advanced AI research are actively hostile to privacy and freedom. Everyone knows this is going to end in a horrific disaster - it's kinda obvious. Yet seemingly many people consider the prospect of slightly cheaper taxi rides to be totally worth the risk.
hack..
hack..
hack...
waymo.all().entertainment.search('Never gonna give you up').play();
waymo.all().navigation.left(100);
waymo.all().navigation.accelerate(100);
And hilarity ensues.
Big brother loves us all.