I'll try not to rant, but -
I work in IT, as a performance engineer. (I make web sites go faster by looking at the pieces' interactions for slow spots.)
As a result, I see LOTS of spyware installed BY THE COMPANY to track, aggregate, and ultimately, market to us. Google knows, without a doubt, the color of your panties - for next Tuesday.
And I've been "ranting" about these invasions for years, and people look at me funny, say, "It's the price we pay for living in a free society!"
To rephrase: we give up our freedom in the name of make-believe security, so we are FREE!
Freedom of choice is what you got; freedom FROM choice is what you want. (Devo, IIRC)
We should've been fighting this <stuff> for the last 20 years at least. Outing legal gun owners? Doxxing people because you disagree with them? Threatening them on social media, because you can track them? (No joke, it's being done using your cell phone.)
If you'll give up your privacy, you've given up your freedom. And government always turns on its citizens, it's just the nature of things. Rome, Germany, Russia, USA, China, Babylon, choose your empire.
What do you think the Internet of Things is REALLY all about?
There isn't enough tinfoil in the world to cover the real answer.... But if you know rats, you know where they're going...
It's a bit late to resist now, the market's already been primed.
