>birthdate is a data point which is considered part of Personally Identifiable Information / Personal Data in many countries. I am far from being a lawyer, but OKCupid should be concerned with regulations like the GDPR approaching soon.
>This may not be as appalling as Grindr’s reporting of HIV status to third parties. It might not be as powerful and widespread as the data used in the Cambridge Analytica Debacle. But that’s not the point.
It indeed is not the point so I don’t know why you felt compelled to write two loosely related paragraphs about how cool you are because you follow the news.
>Recently India has started tracking its citizens with their fingerprints, every thing they buy, every place they visit, every money transaction, everything.
Can't you just use cash? I assume my credit card company, my bank, their partners, and the government know where I am if I use the card. Isn't that the logic thing to think?
Wow. They don’t even require you to enter a PIN number or show your id here for small amounts. Just put the card near the reader (NFC) and go. Now I understand why Apple Pay is a thing
I see. That is very interesting, thank you. I also believe there's something really wrong with our society, and unpleasant and ill things are being normalised little by little by the media (youtube is the media too!), etc. It's frightening to think too that people will get fed up and the pushback will really be ugly.
Unlike the other posters, I'm not going to pretend I don't know what you're talking about. That being said, what's the point of those "MKUltra patterns"? Are they supposed to trigger some special reaction on children?
Most of the arguments I read here are the same one: WP was fast and smooth. But it was not particularly fast, you are simply comparing it to Android, which fucking sucks.
And other than that, it had no other redeeming qualities.
The Police of London actively scan and monitor social networks looking for “hate speech” so they can pursue legal action. What’s the difference between that and what China does?
I’m European. I can be fined and/or incarcerated if what I say on the internet is arbitrarily deemed as “hate speech”. You don’t need to live in China to be censored.
>This may not be as appalling as Grindr’s reporting of HIV status to third parties. It might not be as powerful and widespread as the data used in the Cambridge Analytica Debacle. But that’s not the point.
It indeed is not the point so I don’t know why you felt compelled to write two loosely related paragraphs about how cool you are because you follow the news.