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Originally Posted by freebeard

Agreed, but perhaps there should be some constraint.
yro.slashdot.org..Facial Recognition Database With 3 Billion Scraped Images 'Might End Privacy as We Know It' (muckrock.com)


Since that story has fallen off the front page, it's superceded by:
it.slashdot.org...Exploit Fully Breaks SHA-1, Lowers the Attack Bar (threatpost.com) *

https://developers.slashdot.org...Slate Announces List of The 30 Most Evil Tech Companies (slate.com)

Why they would call 8-kun 8chan, IDK. Journalists.

it.slashdot.org... Telnet Passwords Leaked For More Than 500,000 Servers, Routers, and IoT Devices (zdnet.com) *

*The technical term is 'pants around the ankles'.

As a Millennial, my youth was spent trading privacy for convenience and entertainment. So far that hasn't come back to bite me, and perhaps I have a false sense that openness is worth the risk. That said, our safety from the government isn't in their ignorance, but in citizens setting boundaries on authority (your comment about constraining government).

I had a 23andme kit that I sat on for a year because I was very uneasy about the potential for misuse. Who knows what genes could be found that are correlated with this or that behavior. The government would be very tempted to utilize that knowledge to take preemptive measures. The other thing I have a problem with is paying to give my data to someone. It's of such value that they should be paying me for it (that's what I thought of the SAT, so I didn't take it). The government already has my DNA though, so that's a moot point for me particularly, and I'm for the advancement of science, even if that comes about as profit for a business.

My safety does not primarily come about by my ability to retain secrets; it mostly is secured by a society and government that does not abide in evil.