[haskaalo]

At this point, I think phones can be compared to a home in terms of privacy.

In your house, you might have private documents, do some things you don't want other people to have or see just like what we have on our phones nowadays.

The analogy I'm trying to make is that if suddenly the government decided to install cameras in every houses with the premise to make sure no pedophile is abusing a child and that the cameras never send data unless the AI done locally detects it is something that I believe would shock everyone.

[decebalus1]

> At this point, I think phones can be compared to a home in terms of privacy.

unfortunately the law hasn't really kept up with technology. Let's hope this gets in front of a judge who's able to extrapolate some 'digital' rights from the (outdated) constitution. Unless of course they also 'think of the children'.

[mackrevinack]

its a good analogy that's useful for a lot of things. if someone was standing across the road from your house with a telescope, writing down every tv show or movie you watched, i think most people would be very angry about that. but when people hear they are being profiled online in the same way they are not bothered at all.

it doesn't help that most things online are very abstract, with terms like 'the cloud' making things even harder to understand, which in reality is just someone else's computer

[fsflover]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24463347