On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 3:53 AM George at Clug <c...@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>). Jeff
