11-09-2024, 09:17 PM
This post was last modified 11-10-2024, 02:37 PM by Maxmars.
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I opted to put this in New World Order because ultimately... one vital component of such a world is total surveillance...
Total surveillance has no possible success in a social order which values human dignity. So human dignity must be chipped away, piece by piece, in such a manner as to go unnoticed.
The components of human dignity are debatable, but among them I propose is "privacy."
How better to erase privacy as a detractor of total surveillance as to render it 'negotiable.'
Enter Big Tech... and the idea of monetizing data pertaining to 'users' identity. Making it 'sellable,' giving it 'exchange value.' Purchasing habits, browsing interests, associated user contacts, location data... all for sale... in as many ways, and as many times as possible. Combining them, filtering them, refining them for a 'customer'...
Here is a tiny part of the story I propose...
Your location data...
From ArsTechnica: Verizon, AT&T tell courts: FCC can’t punish us for selling user location data
Backstory: Among the exploits of the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) in the recent past, was a resolution of the committee which set to impose a penalty (fine) for several large ISPs who had embarked on selling location data of otherwise oblivious users (meaning all of them.) It had been done so egregiously and with such rapidity that the "fine per instance" became 'game changing' in magnitude.
Enter the industry lawyers who say 1) "The FCC has no such power to fine us," and 2) "The FCC action does not 'resolve' the issue; therefore it should be rescinded."
I will spare you my verbose take down of this strategy, which I believe only offers an opportunity for the FCC to "back off." If you follow such things, it is a fascinating play which will likely end in your location information being "theirs to sell if they want to." I have little faith in the already captured FCC to effect this change, and propose further that this was a quasi-political stunt charge... meant to intimidate "someone," and not remedy the abuse of our information... our government has shown very little interest protecting our personal data.
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are continuing their fight against fines for selling user location data, with two of the big three carriers submitting new court briefs arguing that the Federal Communications Commission can't punish them.
A Verizon brief filed on November 4 and an AT&T brief on November 1 contest the legal basis for the FCC fines issued in April 2024. T-Mobile also sued the FCC, but briefs haven't been filed yet in that case.
"Verizon's petition for review stems from the multiple and significant errors that the FCC, in purporting to enforce statutory consumer data privacy provisions, made in overstepping its authority," Verizon wrote. "The FCC's Forfeiture Order violated both the Communications Act and the Constitution, while failing to benefit the consumers it purported to protect."
Verizon and AT&T both said the fines violate their Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial, and that the location data doesn't fall under the law cited by the FCC. Verizon appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, while AT&T appealed in the 5th Circuit and T-Mobile appealed in the DC Circuit.
The fines are $80.1 million for T-Mobile, $57.3 million for AT&T, $46.9 million for Verizon, and $12.2 million for T-Mobile subsidiary Sprint. The penalties relate to the 2018 revelation of real-time location data being shared. The FCC proposed the fines in 2020, when the commission had a Republican majority, and the fines were finalized under the current Democratic majority.
Ultimately it only definitively demonstrates that the industry itself refuses the idea that "not selling user data" is a benefit to the consumer.
Total surveillance has no possible success in a social order which values human dignity. So human dignity must be chipped away, piece by piece, in such a manner as to go unnoticed.
The components of human dignity are debatable, but among them I propose is "privacy."
How better to erase privacy as a detractor of total surveillance as to render it 'negotiable.'
Enter Big Tech... and the idea of monetizing data pertaining to 'users' identity. Making it 'sellable,' giving it 'exchange value.' Purchasing habits, browsing interests, associated user contacts, location data... all for sale... in as many ways, and as many times as possible. Combining them, filtering them, refining them for a 'customer'...
Here is a tiny part of the story I propose...
Your location data...
From ArsTechnica: Verizon, AT&T tell courts: FCC can’t punish us for selling user location data
Backstory: Among the exploits of the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) in the recent past, was a resolution of the committee which set to impose a penalty (fine) for several large ISPs who had embarked on selling location data of otherwise oblivious users (meaning all of them.) It had been done so egregiously and with such rapidity that the "fine per instance" became 'game changing' in magnitude.
Enter the industry lawyers who say 1) "The FCC has no such power to fine us," and 2) "The FCC action does not 'resolve' the issue; therefore it should be rescinded."
I will spare you my verbose take down of this strategy, which I believe only offers an opportunity for the FCC to "back off." If you follow such things, it is a fascinating play which will likely end in your location information being "theirs to sell if they want to." I have little faith in the already captured FCC to effect this change, and propose further that this was a quasi-political stunt charge... meant to intimidate "someone," and not remedy the abuse of our information... our government has shown very little interest protecting our personal data.
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are continuing their fight against fines for selling user location data, with two of the big three carriers submitting new court briefs arguing that the Federal Communications Commission can't punish them.
A Verizon brief filed on November 4 and an AT&T brief on November 1 contest the legal basis for the FCC fines issued in April 2024. T-Mobile also sued the FCC, but briefs haven't been filed yet in that case.
"Verizon's petition for review stems from the multiple and significant errors that the FCC, in purporting to enforce statutory consumer data privacy provisions, made in overstepping its authority," Verizon wrote. "The FCC's Forfeiture Order violated both the Communications Act and the Constitution, while failing to benefit the consumers it purported to protect."
Verizon and AT&T both said the fines violate their Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial, and that the location data doesn't fall under the law cited by the FCC. Verizon appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, while AT&T appealed in the 5th Circuit and T-Mobile appealed in the DC Circuit.
The fines are $80.1 million for T-Mobile, $57.3 million for AT&T, $46.9 million for Verizon, and $12.2 million for T-Mobile subsidiary Sprint. The penalties relate to the 2018 revelation of real-time location data being shared. The FCC proposed the fines in 2020, when the commission had a Republican majority, and the fines were finalized under the current Democratic majority.
Ultimately it only definitively demonstrates that the industry itself refuses the idea that "not selling user data" is a benefit to the consumer.
