| we’ve had it here in the us for long time. privacy forums were recommending people run magnets over the stripes on id’s at least 10 years ago when companies started swiping them. is the new digital id terrifying? probably. but honestly from a privacy perspective, the way companies and government working together suck up all of our digital movements is terrifying if privacy matters at all to us. to me, this was an obvious next step considering the world we’ve decided to build. we’re doing this. government employees. corporation employees. we’re allowing power to consolidate at a rapid pace. we can’t decimate the separation of governments and companies, then build company after company after company which heavily rely on human data for their profits, and then simultaneously be shocked when this happens. either we have privacy from both governments and companies or we don’t. particularly in a world where we refuse to hold power to any sort of reasonable standards (and by “power” i mean governments, corporations, wealthy individuals, individuals with power backing them, organizations, etc…) i guess my ramble really boils down to this: many of us on this exact forum are building the tools. many of us on this forum are directly enabling power of all kinds to consolidate. it isn’t clear to me how we can complain about it too. |