Seriously. I don't want to live in a world where I am "stalked" by billion dollar "people" who decide whether I get insurance, and at what price, and who can search "big data" for any and every possible "infraction", also retroactively, at their "discretion".
And who turn around and rat me out to whatever authorities, who are not permitted to directly collect such data but who are free to take it -- or purchase it, using my tax dollars -- from such third parties.
Two years ago, I helped a casual friend with a prior felony drug conviction, to get and stay sober.
Now, Facebook et al. put me in that felon's "graph", and what happens to me? For example, am I -- by computed association -- an insurance risk?
One simple example, of how you can't have a functioning society in the face of such ueber-monitoring.
They will destroy what they are ostensibly trying to "shore up".
Society works, in good part, because people are free agents.
Ironically, the same message these bozos try to convey during election season. And the one they use to rail against "big government".
Well, big (private) surveillance is no different. Worse, even, because it's becoming apparent that people have little or no say in whether and how it's done. Not even a vote during elections, with which to influence policy.
Politicians have, to a significant extent, externalized the political cost of what they -- contrary to their rhetoric and also in the name of their big business buddies -- are pursuing.
> I don't want to live in a world where I am "stalked" by billion dollar "people" who decide whether I get insurance, and at what price, ...
The use of big data will render insurance into exactly what it is not. I.e., if these companies have their way, they will know in advance exactly what medical condition you will have at what age, etc., and you will pay exactly for that, plus a big profit margin of course.
As a society, we should ensure that insurance stays insurance, and doesn't become an expensive loan that you pay off in advance.
China's Sesame Credit is one experiment I'm sure most countries are watching closely as it's designed to rate you based on your behavior online, social network, consumption and interactions in society at large
>>Seriously. I don't want to live in a world where I am "stalked" by billion dollar "people" who decide whether I get insurance, and at what price, and who can search "big data" for any and every possible "infraction", also retroactively, at their "discretion".
If this can be automated passively and cheaply, its an inevitable outcome; regulation or not.
If corporations are "people"...
Seriously. I don't want to live in a world where I am "stalked" by billion dollar "people" who decide whether I get insurance, and at what price, and who can search "big data" for any and every possible "infraction", also retroactively, at their "discretion".
And who turn around and rat me out to whatever authorities, who are not permitted to directly collect such data but who are free to take it -- or purchase it, using my tax dollars -- from such third parties.
Two years ago, I helped a casual friend with a prior felony drug conviction, to get and stay sober.
Now, Facebook et al. put me in that felon's "graph", and what happens to me? For example, am I -- by computed association -- an insurance risk?
One simple example, of how you can't have a functioning society in the face of such ueber-monitoring.
They will destroy what they are ostensibly trying to "shore up".
Society works, in good part, because people are free agents.
Ironically, the same message these bozos try to convey during election season. And the one they use to rail against "big government".
Well, big (private) surveillance is no different. Worse, even, because it's becoming apparent that people have little or no say in whether and how it's done. Not even a vote during elections, with which to influence policy.
Politicians have, to a significant extent, externalized the political cost of what they -- contrary to their rhetoric and also in the name of their big business buddies -- are pursuing.