Your point is well taken, but 100 years will anyone care that you had the flu on May 7 2019?
>Who the fuck owns MySpace now?
It's all deleted. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/18/18271023/myspace-music-vi...
>Who the fuck owns MySpace now?
It's all deleted. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/18/18271023/myspace-music-vi...
My future health care provider might. Maybe they’ll spike rates by figuring out how often I’m ill using this data.
Maybe I will marry a congressman someday and the sext that I sent today to my BF will be used to blackmail us.
Maybe 30 years from now, people will be able to use my youthful indiscretions as leverage.
Maybe I won’t get certain jobs because of where I’ve been or whom I’ve accidentally been close to in the location data.
Maybe my sleeping habits will lead to higher life insurance rates.
Russia and private actors have already personally targeted millions of people using highly directed ads to move an election using publicly available data. Imagine what they could do with Google’s data. Target congressional aides? Target the POTUS’ mistress (or mister)?
In the hands of a Caesar or a Napoleon that data is the power to reshape the Earth, smite your enemies, eviscerate any obstacles and remake the holder into an invincible demi-god.
> My future health care provider might. Maybe they’ll spike rates by figuring out how often I’m ill using this data.
You seem to be perhaps a little too optimistic about your life expectancy.
If I’m truly lucky, it could be a century. It’s something I try to work for. I have 2X chromosomes, am nominally healthy with CR and replicating the best anti-aging treatments of our time (retinoids for skin, exercise, nicotinamide riboside etc). Barring the unforeseen, my genes and efforts will probably lead to an extremely long healthy life span.
From your HN comments, it feels like the world would be a poorer and darker place without you in it. People like you make a life worth living and a long one worth striving for. If we all take care of our health (with a little chemical help along the way) maybe we’ll all get to see what’s next together? :)
Not running algorithms for ad targeting doesn't make the data any more secure. Only end-to-end encryption does.
It reads "For certain sensitive information, Apple uses end-to-end encryption. This means that only you can access your information" and then immediate shows a giant table of data that is NOT end-to-end encrypted, but not labelled as such -- it's only inferrable by its omissions from the next section of the document.
or can't seem to differentiate between what Google does now ...vs what might happen with Apple in the future.
Also, I didn't say anything about what Apple might or might not do in the future. I made a distinction between worries about ad targeting and security issues that come with storing data in the cloud without end-to-end encryption.
How can you be sure? End to end encryption is not a guarantee when you're inputting your key into a closed source client to store and retrieve the data.
Also, in China Apple handed over iCloud operations to a government owned company, including the keys.
By implication, all other data is not end-to-end encrypted. That includes iCloud drive, photos, calendar, contacts and mail.
Specifically listed as encrypted in transit and on server:
- iCloud Drive
- Photos
- Calendar
- Contacts
Only mail is not according to this support article.
Edit: I see the omission now. These things are not listed under the end-to-end section.
I do make one exception to this, in that I have a long-standing business arrangement with a company that manages my mail and web server, but I am paying them for a specific service which they have been completely reliable about providing, so I feel generally comfortable with that.
I feel badly for people who haven't had the advantage of growing up with all this stuff and are therefore having to learn these lessons the hard way. Lots of painful experiences out there.
It seems like there aren't very many people who really care about privacy... and they would be easy to single out and punish.
On that note, enjoy your semblance of privacy now... while you still can!
[0]: https://www.businessinsider.de/video-china-train-warns-citiz...
But what's the definition of "other peoples' machines?"
If you run Windows 10, it's not really your machine. You don't have full control over it, do you? It updates and reboots when Microsoft tells it to, not when you tell it to.
If you use a smartphone, that's not your machine, either. If you can't read and write every byte of storage from the baseband processor to the video chipset, but the company who sold you the phone can, then that means it's their machine, and not yours.
If you use a Linux box or a Mac, I hope you never plug an Ethernet cable into it, because that effectively turns your machine into a dumb terminal on a system that isn't yours, just as the Oracle (Corporation) foretold.
"Keeping it to yourself" gets a little less practical every year, it seems.
My devices all connect to a wifi router at home that I bought and configured myself, which bridges to my ISP's modem. Has it been hacked...? Well, I hope not. I do the best I can. My laptops have all been ThinkPads running Linux, for years. I love the maintainability, and the fact that I can turn off wifi with a physical switch is a nice bonus. I'd like to try out a Purism laptop someday, if I can ever afford it.
I take comfort in the fact that nobody really cares what I am doing and I am not worth the effort of a focused attack. If I ever got involved in politics or activism, I might manage my risks differently. It is frustrating for me that the world continues to drift further away from the way I'd prefer it to be, in this arena, but my desires are extreme, so I suppose that's to be expected.
Maybe someone will try to blackmail you and your congressman husband, but both of you will just shrug, because no one cares at all about nudes. Not even you, after a few more decades of information wanting to be free and becoming free and public.
Maybe it's better that you didn't get those jobs and you find something else. With all the extra data out there, maybe there'll be a service that'll match you up with doing something you really want to do that fulfills your soul instead of sucks it.
Why do you suppose that with more information election manipulation will be one-sided in favor of certain manipulators over other manipulators or even suppressors? I'm told FB does a great job suppressing all kinds of data from spreading, I don't imagine they'll get worse at it. We also have all the other manipulators manipulating in exactly the opposite direction as any particular manipulator you want to call out. Seems like a wash.
Your concerns all boil down to big maybes about mildly increased financial burden and people increasing their sensitivity to private info being exposed despite decades of trends implying the opposite. In the hands of a Caesar, this isn't the power to reshape the Earth at all, especially when it's never going to be in the hands of one entity.
Then why are there so many tech companies obsessed with "changing the world"?
None of your rebuttal did anything to negate the fact that big data can be and is used as a weapon the likes of which the world has never seen before.
Like getting ghosted after a job interview. You will have _no idea_ what caused the rejection. Or, as to your examples, you will have no idea if and/or why you're getting charged more.
Epidemiologists? Researchers? Academics? Governments trying to model future disease response based on historical trends?
Just off the top of my head.
They deleted 12 years of music uploads, not everything. Username, email, bio, friends, etc. still exists somewhere, but who owns it? What do they intend to do with it?
Reveal my Top 8 when I run for congress?