11-09-2024, 10:40 PM
(11-09-2024, 09:41 PM)jaded Wrote: Corporations will monitize everything possible until the revenue stream dries up or they're forced to hit a "hard stop".
Location data is more problematic than just being a invasion of privacy. Just spitballing but I can easily see how it being sold on the dark web endangers victims of domestic abuse, makes specific murders possible (locate your target for a price) plus more.
Since our phones have more back doors than holes in Swiss cheese you know location information is a convenient tool for 3 letter agencies. I'm not going to rag on the police since I'm all for crime solving & Location info is a necessary tool for that. It's also not a stretch to consider the FCC got lobbied by communication companies to originally write a weak law to hedge their bets.
On the other hand if anyone is tracking my locations they are now bored beyond belief or they've already had a lobotomy. My moves are like watching Pong. Endlessly.
I really have no worries about personal safety attached to the sale of my data... although there's no denying that it could be used for nefarious and otherwise bad intent.
What bothers me is systematically excluding the actual pertinent "object" of the data... you. If data about you or me has 'value' why is that value "taken for use" by a party that contractually serves us? Is there no remunerations due? Where else other than slavery does that ever occur in the human world? And why is it that "we" have no say in the matter? These fundamental objections cannot be ignored although the lords of commerce seem to think it "naturally so."
Perhaps the FCC's stunt at least brought to light just how much money they are 'shifting' in the market... having done nothing more than outright stealing it from us.
I think that's the legal angle upon which the challenge should be made. Too bad no one really has "jurisdiction."
