Telemetry, data hoarding [was: how2 format a flash drive]

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
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Subject	Telemetry, data hoarding [was: how2 format a flash drive]
Date	2024-07-02 10:30 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 04:09:39AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 3:53 AM George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> wrote:
> >
> > Is telemetry evil?  Are guns evil?  Philosophical questions?
> >
> > I find it objectionable when people gather "telemetry" about "me" and not just the causes of the "blue screens of death".
> >
> > I find it objectionable when people gather personal "telemetry" and then on sell that information to others for whatever purposes, whether it is to target me with ads, or political analysts like Cambridge Analytica, or to alter my "Social Credit Score", or to be used to cancel my Credit Cards, or for whatever other purpose.
> 
> For those interested in reading more, pick up a copy of Shoshana
> Zuboff's book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a
> Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
> (<https://www.amazon.com//dp/1610395697> and
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism>).

Thanks for that ref. One of the most important books for our
trade, indeed.

If possible, don't buy it at Amazon :-)

Cheers
-- 
t

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how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-06-25 16:00 +0200
  Re: how2 format a flash drive "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-06-25 16:30 +0200
    Re: how2 format a flash drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-06-25 16:50 +0200
      Re: how2 format a flash drive "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-06-25 18:30 +0200
        Re: how2 format a flash drive "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-06-25 18:50 +0200
      Re: how2 format a flash drive eben@gmx.us - 2024-06-25 19:20 +0200
        Re: how2 format a flash drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-06-26 01:00 +0200
    Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-06-25 21:40 +0200
  Re: how2 format a flash drive Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-06-25 17:50 +0200
    Re: how2 format a flash drive Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-06-25 18:50 +0200
      Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-06-26 01:30 +0200
    Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-06-25 21:50 +0200
      Re: how2 format a flash drive eben@gmx.us - 2024-06-25 22:20 +0200
      Re: how2 format a flash drive George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-06-26 01:30 +0200
        Re: how2 format a flash drive sd@swampdog.co.uk - 2024-06-27 15:30 +0200
        Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-06-29 18:50 +0200
          Re: how2 format a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-06-29 19:40 +0200
            Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 04:40 +0200
              Re: how2 format a flash drive jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 07:50 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 15:10 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-07-01 15:50 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 21:30 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-07-02 05:50 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-07-02 06:10 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-07-02 06:40 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-07-02 06:50 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 10:20 +0200
                Telemetry, data hoarding [was: how2 format a flash drive] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-07-02 10:30 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 11:20 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-07-02 17:20 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 10:30 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 11:30 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 22:40 +0200
          Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive) Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-06-29 22:50 +0200
            Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-06-30 03:40 +0200
              Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-06-30 08:00 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-06-30 17:40 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 09:00 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 17:10 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-07 23:50 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-07-08 04:40 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-08 16:30 +0200
            Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive) Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 03:40 +0200
              Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive) Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 03:50 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive) Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 07:50 +0200
          Re: how2 format a flash drive Keith Bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2024-06-30 08:20 +0200
          Re: how2 format a flash drive Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 08:00 +0200
  Re: how2 format a flash drive Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> - 2024-07-06 17:50 +0200

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