Yup. I'm a decline to state (Indepedent) registered voter and can't vote in the Republican primary here in CA.
And I have three phone numbers. The cell phone number is known by maybe five people/entities. It also isn't listed under my name so there's that.
I find the Biden app. a major invasion of privacy; allowing an app. to seach contacts so you can see their voting pattern is Big Brother. And yes, it is online but this allows for a third party to intrude in two people's business.
It is an invasion of privacy in the sense that it is taking your public information and intentionally putting it in the hands of people for the explicit purpose of trying to get them to shame you/harass you (or worse).
But this isn’t any worse than someone being able to put your phone number into a search engine, pay $5 and see your home address, the names and ages of you and everyone else the database thinks are related to you, as well as an ad to pay another $5 and check to see all of your legal history, marriages, divorces, court cases, registered businesses, etc.
Big data is out there, if you want to live in society you basically have to contribute some data to the databases - it’s not really avoidable unless you want to live off the grid in the mountains Ted Kaczynski style.
The problem is that as a society we have devolved to the point where we can’t have a discussion without equating those we disagree with to Hitler.
I know plenty of people who voted for Obama, and Hillary, and will be voting for Biden. Some of them are friends, family, and coworkers.
I may think they are idiots for voting the way that they do, but I wouldn’t try to get them fired or arrested or unpersoned because they don’t see the world the way I do.
Yet I have to keep my beliefs to myself among a large subset of that group out of fear that they would not be as tolerant as I am (mainly the coworker group).
That is the scariest part about the Biden app, not the big data perspective. I think trying to rein in big data would be similar to trying to uninvent the nuclear bomb, or the gun, etc. it’s not happening, so instead of wishing it didn’t exist, we should focus on calling out the negatives and using it to our advantage.
There was an interesting article in Zero Hedge about what happens when children are coddled and overprotected to the point that they break under stress.
Not stress like an 18 year old soldier dodging bullets in a Middle Eastern desert moonscape.
Stress like hearing a classmate offer a well supported disagreement with another's opinion paper.
Something as trivial as that requiring colleges to establish safe spaces with unicorn pattern blankets for the perpetually aggrieved.
I live in Los Angeles but fortunately, my area is quietly non-political. No Biden signs. No Trump signs. Maybe nine months ago, I discovered the family across the street are Trump supporters. Only because the wife and I struck up a conversation about the impeachment while I was working in my yard.
And the big data/Google/Facebook/Twitter galaxy is scary. Not on Twitter, Tik Tok, etc.
Years ago, had to get a Facebook account to rent a cheap studio truck for our move. After that two weeks, I immediately deleted it and all tentacles.
Another thing that a lot of people don’t think about - big data has been around longer than “big tech” although they have managed to monetize it best.
Think about our society, you can’t do anything without being required to put tons of data in publicly searchable (I.e not just restricted to government or LEOs) free/paid databases.
Do you want to:
Drive a car?
Own a car?
Buy a house?
Rent a house?
Vote?
Have electricity? Water? Gas? Sewer?
Have a phone? Internet service?
Use anything other than cash/cryptocurrency to buy goods and services?
Choosing to participate in any of those activities require you volunteer some level of personal information that is going to be indexed and searchable, maybe not all of it for free, but there are all sorts of paid databases that will give that out to anyone.
What if an equifax employee decided to take all that info (or a hacker leaks it on the dark web lol) and cross reference it with the voter databases, and generate a list of “all these people are republicans, let’s get them fired”?
Yup. I'm a decline to state (Indepedent) registered voter and can't vote in the Republican primary here in CA.
And I have three phone numbers. The cell phone number is known by maybe five people/entities. It also isn't listed under my name so there's that.
I find the Biden app. a major invasion of privacy; allowing an app. to seach contacts so you can see their voting pattern is Big Brother. And yes, it is online but this allows for a third party to intrude in two people's business.
It is an invasion of privacy in the sense that it is taking your public information and intentionally putting it in the hands of people for the explicit purpose of trying to get them to shame you/harass you (or worse).
But this isn’t any worse than someone being able to put your phone number into a search engine, pay $5 and see your home address, the names and ages of you and everyone else the database thinks are related to you, as well as an ad to pay another $5 and check to see all of your legal history, marriages, divorces, court cases, registered businesses, etc.
Big data is out there, if you want to live in society you basically have to contribute some data to the databases - it’s not really avoidable unless you want to live off the grid in the mountains Ted Kaczynski style.
The problem is that as a society we have devolved to the point where we can’t have a discussion without equating those we disagree with to Hitler.
I know plenty of people who voted for Obama, and Hillary, and will be voting for Biden. Some of them are friends, family, and coworkers.
I may think they are idiots for voting the way that they do, but I wouldn’t try to get them fired or arrested or unpersoned because they don’t see the world the way I do.
Yet I have to keep my beliefs to myself among a large subset of that group out of fear that they would not be as tolerant as I am (mainly the coworker group).
That is the scariest part about the Biden app, not the big data perspective. I think trying to rein in big data would be similar to trying to uninvent the nuclear bomb, or the gun, etc. it’s not happening, so instead of wishing it didn’t exist, we should focus on calling out the negatives and using it to our advantage.
All true.
There was an interesting article in Zero Hedge about what happens when children are coddled and overprotected to the point that they break under stress.
Not stress like an 18 year old soldier dodging bullets in a Middle Eastern desert moonscape.
Stress like hearing a classmate offer a well supported disagreement with another's opinion paper.
Something as trivial as that requiring colleges to establish safe spaces with unicorn pattern blankets for the perpetually aggrieved.
I live in Los Angeles but fortunately, my area is quietly non-political. No Biden signs. No Trump signs. Maybe nine months ago, I discovered the family across the street are Trump supporters. Only because the wife and I struck up a conversation about the impeachment while I was working in my yard.
And the big data/Google/Facebook/Twitter galaxy is scary. Not on Twitter, Tik Tok, etc.
Years ago, had to get a Facebook account to rent a cheap studio truck for our move. After that two weeks, I immediately deleted it and all tentacles.
Another thing that a lot of people don’t think about - big data has been around longer than “big tech” although they have managed to monetize it best.
Think about our society, you can’t do anything without being required to put tons of data in publicly searchable (I.e not just restricted to government or LEOs) free/paid databases.
Do you want to: Drive a car? Own a car? Buy a house? Rent a house? Vote? Have electricity? Water? Gas? Sewer? Have a phone? Internet service? Use anything other than cash/cryptocurrency to buy goods and services?
Choosing to participate in any of those activities require you volunteer some level of personal information that is going to be indexed and searchable, maybe not all of it for free, but there are all sorts of paid databases that will give that out to anyone.
What if an equifax employee decided to take all that info (or a hacker leaks it on the dark web lol) and cross reference it with the voter databases, and generate a list of “all these people are republicans, let’s get them fired”?
Yup. Could happen.
Look at what those Ebay execs did to that couple who had some disagreement with Ebay.
Not content with destroying the couple online, several of the Ebay execs flew across the country to wreak havoc in a close and personal manner.