I had already assumed it was happening, and if it wasn't that it was a matter of time.
The thing is you can never trust what companies are doing now or what they promise to do in the future. If you really want know what they will do, examine the incentives. It is pretty inevitable that human nature will eventually follow strong incentives, even when they should not be followed. An organization might have a strong compass today, but leaders come and go. Eventually someone will be in charge of the project who can't ignore that extra buck floating out there.
If we really value privacy and security of our tech, we have to change the incentives of the situation. To me, that means we stop accepting the value proposition of letting our personal data be mined as payment for services. The incentives of that situation are ripe for so many kinds of abuse.
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I had already assumed it was happening, and if it wasn't that it was a matter of time.
The thing is you can never trust what companies are doing now or what they promise to do in the future. If you really want know what they will do, examine the incentives. It is pretty inevitable that human nature will eventually follow strong incentives, even when they should not be followed. An organization might have a strong compass today, but leaders come and go. Eventually someone will be in charge of the project who can't ignore that extra buck floating out there.
If we really value privacy and security of our tech, we have to change the incentives of the situation. To me, that means we stop accepting the value proposition of letting our personal data be mined as payment for services. The incentives of that situation are ripe for so many kinds of abuse.
yup, that is a great point.