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by Laforet 916 days ago
Bruce Schneier wrote a similar post back in 2016, and he was ridiculed pretty badly by everybody. Interesting to see how the opinion has shifted to the other extreme in less than 10 years.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...

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What I hate is there’s no way for me to say “I know the risks, I still want this feature”. I have been carefully making sure this data is collected for years and I use it all the time.
That's not an option because Google has decided they don't want to bear the risks. Which, frankly, is entirely reasonable.
A great example of the tyranny of the majority[1]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority