<story><title>Your Phone Is Your Private Space</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/spyware-your-iphone-step-too-far-privacy/619987/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angelzen</author><text>&amp;#x27;will chew&amp;#x27;?? The use of future tense is somewhat strange. We already live in a tech panopticon.&lt;p&gt;Went the other day to an old friend&amp;#x27;s house. At the door, a Ring eye unblinkingly stared at me. For a few moments I felt like crushing the metallic monstrosity under the heel of my boot: I never consented to have my face uploaded in the Cloud. Then realized how powerless we truly are: every other house, every other shop, every other car have such an eye, all connected to the AllSeeingCloudEntity. With vision tech cheap enough to match our faceprint every single step every single one of us takes in a public space. Heracles at least had a fighting chance against the Hydra. Where do we even begin reclaiming our right to not be continuously watched?</text></item><item><author>hypothesis</author><text>&amp;gt; Privacy is a set of curtains drawn across the windows of our lives. And technology companies are moths that will chew through more of the fabric every year if we let them, and especially if we encourage them.&lt;p&gt;That bright future and empowering innovation that most of us expected from tech companies was really a mirage…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>I know it&amp;#x27;s boring and in many places unlikely, but government is essentially the only tool that could ever be effective at quelling the continued expansion of corporate surveillance.&lt;p&gt;We can likely all come up with novel technology ideas to help ourselves, but it&amp;#x27;s a blight on all of society not just those who are conscious of it. They are our governments after all, we should be using them as tools for good as best we can.</text></comment>
<story><title>Your Phone Is Your Private Space</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/spyware-your-iphone-step-too-far-privacy/619987/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angelzen</author><text>&amp;#x27;will chew&amp;#x27;?? The use of future tense is somewhat strange. We already live in a tech panopticon.&lt;p&gt;Went the other day to an old friend&amp;#x27;s house. At the door, a Ring eye unblinkingly stared at me. For a few moments I felt like crushing the metallic monstrosity under the heel of my boot: I never consented to have my face uploaded in the Cloud. Then realized how powerless we truly are: every other house, every other shop, every other car have such an eye, all connected to the AllSeeingCloudEntity. With vision tech cheap enough to match our faceprint every single step every single one of us takes in a public space. Heracles at least had a fighting chance against the Hydra. Where do we even begin reclaiming our right to not be continuously watched?</text></item><item><author>hypothesis</author><text>&amp;gt; Privacy is a set of curtains drawn across the windows of our lives. And technology companies are moths that will chew through more of the fabric every year if we let them, and especially if we encourage them.&lt;p&gt;That bright future and empowering innovation that most of us expected from tech companies was really a mirage…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hypothesis</author><text>Ha, wait until you visit a house where there are surveilling devices blinking at your in &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; room.&lt;p&gt;Also, sometimes I expect a  Tesla to go full “Assuming Control” mode and continue aggressive behavior of previously encountered one. Surely they record&amp;#x2F;analyze everything encountered and pass it onto central server, so no issues “remembering” me…</text></comment>