You Are the Object of a Secret Extraction Operation
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Their linked source actually says the two companies "refused to open their technology to governments pushing for centralized data storage, a strategy they considered vulnerable to state snooping."
https://www.politico.eu/article/google-apple-coronavirus-app...
Source: ran the team that developed one of the first US state exposure notification apps based on EN Express, the protocol to which the linked source is referring.
I am one of the last people to defend Google and/or Apple, but in this case they just didn't weaken their existing guidelines for states to snoop the data of their citizens. A hypothetical contact tracing app that would have met the guidelines would have had no problems at all.
i thought that the "democratically elected lawmakers" are there to carry on the will of the people, not to dominate. And if instead you accept the system of societal dominance in principle, then does it really that matter who is going to dominate? I mean following the Churchill it becomes "now we're just negotiating".
The will of the people is supposed to dominate.
> And if instead you accept the system of societal dominance in principle, then does it really that matter who is going to dominate?
Yes, obviously. You're oversimplifying if you come to any other answer to that question.
>hierarchical structures tend to emerge in complex systems
one can say that many observed complex systems emerge as the way to facilitate/implement/support the hierarchy.
You can debate the effectiveness of these arrangements; it’s clearly true that hierarchical orgs are the norm, and they have a tendency to expand via force. But to say that there is “no human institution on earth” that doesn’t use hierarchies and dominance is just not true.
History is littered with "never"s that eventually happened. Monarchies, aristocracy, slavery, feudalism, serfdom, empire, mercantilism, all would "never" be replaced ... until they were. Even three centuries ago the idea that we'd be discussing how representative democracies might react to the existence of an anarchistic commune would be an absurd conversation, just not in the way that you might think it is. Not too long ago to be a republican was to be unbelievably radical[0], now it's the majority position for the post-industrial world.
Furthermore, arguably there are plenty of cases of less hierarchical organizations beating out more hierarchical ones. This commonly crops up in military conflicts with decentralized decision making trouncing strict hierarchical militaries, usually in the form of guerilla warfare. I would also argue that the (so far) triumph of representative democracy and capitalism over feudalism and monarchy as a triumph of the less hierarchical over the more hierarchical.
Does that mean that anarchism will come? Heavens no. I would not deign to try and predict such chaotic things as revolutions and forms of government. The transition from monarchy to republic was chaotic and often unplanned, even by the very men and women who mounted the barricades to topple the old forms of government. But I would absolutely not be so confident to say "always" and "never", those statements are far too certain about an unpredictable process.
0 - In the early days of the French Revolution even Robespierre was opposed to toppling the monarchy and replacing it with a republic, and he was never exactly a moderate at any point in his life. The overton window on republicanism has moved a lot in a few centuries.
I think that one is still wholly dominant. Personal initiative will always win.
All that they can get for sure is that you know someone.
That's way more limited compared to all of your thoughts likes dislikes beliefs location family members pets, etc that people share when logged in.
My point is that we complain about Facebook stealing our data but then log in to Facebook and freely give it to them.
Instead of waiting for the govt or some big regulatory entity to slap Facebook we can do it ourselves and just delete Facebook.
Why do you think people don't just do that?
I deleted FB, Insta and Twitter, and lost nothing. My life got better.
That's all they know for sure.
it's something but not much.
Each of these is insignificant and noisy, but when aggregated it allows 99.9% predictions on stuff like "who are you voting for", "how much do you earn", "are you expecting a child", "are you buying a house/car/trip/anything significant soon", "how's your health", "are you sleeping well", "where do you live", "are you on a trip", etc.
People get ads about health issues before they realize they have these issues, because the Algorithm knows better.
When you have enough noisy uncertain data it doesn't matter that it's uncertain and noisy.
"Did Jane attend <event>?"
"Do you work with Jane an FooCorp?"
etc etc etc