<story><title>Social Cooling (2017)</title><url>https://www.socialcooling.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>40four</author><text>I think this is a good example of how pro-privacy arguments should be framed. It is takes the varied aspects and complex implications of tracking users across the web (or even in the real world), and distills it down into an easy to understand concept.&lt;p&gt;When you think privacy of in in the terms of &amp;#x27;social cooling&amp;#x27;, or consider things like China&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;social credit&amp;#x27; system, I can&amp;#x27;t help be think we are much closer to the world depicted in the last season of Westworld than we might want to admit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonestamp2</author><text>Agreed. I think the audience matters too -- different messages appeal to different people.&lt;p&gt;My dad is one of those old school guys who thinks law enforcement can do no wrong and nobody needs to hide anything unless they&amp;#x27;re doing something wrong. Even if that were true and I think it is true that many law enforcement personnel are trying to do good, that doesn&amp;#x27;t always mean the results will always reflect their intentions. When the sample size of facts is too small, as is often the case with mass collection, it&amp;#x27;s too easy for your sample to get mixed up with someone else&amp;#x27;s. Maybe your phone is the only other phone in the area when a murder is committed. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you did it, but it sure makes you look like the only suspect.&lt;p&gt;I was never able to gain an inch on his argument until I asked him why he has curtains on his living room window. I mean, it faces North, so there&amp;#x27;s no need to block intense sunlight, yet he closes them every night when he&amp;#x27;s sitting there reading a book or watching TV. Why? He&amp;#x27;s not doing anything illegal, yet he still doesn&amp;#x27;t want people watching him. He said he would not be ok with the Police standing at his window all night watching him. That&amp;#x27;s when he finally understood that digital privacy is not just for criminals, but for everyone who wants to exist in a peaceful state and not a police state.</text></comment>
<story><title>Social Cooling (2017)</title><url>https://www.socialcooling.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>40four</author><text>I think this is a good example of how pro-privacy arguments should be framed. It is takes the varied aspects and complex implications of tracking users across the web (or even in the real world), and distills it down into an easy to understand concept.&lt;p&gt;When you think privacy of in in the terms of &amp;#x27;social cooling&amp;#x27;, or consider things like China&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;social credit&amp;#x27; system, I can&amp;#x27;t help be think we are much closer to the world depicted in the last season of Westworld than we might want to admit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smolder</author><text>Right. Apart from the sci-fi tropes, the extreme drama, and aesthetics, it&amp;#x27;s a spitting image. A great deal of effort  is quietly spent on social control, keeping things as they are, and extracting value from people-as-cows, both here and there. Any technology in a position to add robustness to that system, to reduce its upkeep effort, or improve its efficiency at generating wealth for the privileged is likely to succeed, so it&amp;#x27;s reasonable to think some of the not-yet-here but possible aspects their world will make it to ours in time.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I think that authors who see patterns and make reasonable but dire predictions about where society is going actually end up providing a game plan to career oppressors.</text></comment>