Quite ironic to post this piece of journalism on one of the worst offenders on tracking and personalised advertisements. I can see more than 20 scripts without even having anything enabled. Set your own house in order before judging the government.
It is not OK to require people to be 100% "Pure" before seeking to improve the world around them.
Hypocrites who seek to make the government do better things even when they're doing similar bad things are still seeking to make the government do better things.
The morality of an act of activism does not change based on the personal failings of the person engaging in it. (It can change based on the intentions of that person—eg, if the thing they're trying to get the government to do would also make it easier for them to get away with currently-illegal/immoral acts, but that's a separate issue from mere hypocrisy.)
Maybe I should have clarified because it seems obvious. In my country you can't point a camera at anything that isn't your property. Which means you can't point it in a way that you can see your neighbours, or on a public street. You're not being filmed or recorded at all times and if you are, you know exactly who is doing it. This is properly enforced in almost all cases exept highways, some public libraries and entrances of public/gov buildings. Tracking is still pervasive and slowly creeping up.
Isn't 'pointing at' little nebulous. I may have setup my camera to point at my backyard, but some portion of neighbor's yard may showup in the corner. If I adjust the camera to eliminate this neighbor's yard then the other one's creeps into the view from other side.
For the both the situation my camera is squarely 'pointed at' the center of my backyard.
I wonder about the enforcement. I see Ring video doorbells popping up in lotsa places that are clearly filming public streets. Maybe enforcement is slow, or only happens after someone reports a violation.
Because its hypocritical to expect the governement to not use tools and data analytics to improve 'user experience/citizen's well being' while being guilty of the exact same behaviour.
dont wait for others to do the right thing, get your own house in order, then help the rest of the world.
While I agree with the desire to reduce tracking on that, and other, site, there is a clear difference compared to when a government does it.
For one, you could likely not avoid it if the gov did it, while you can "just" chose to not use that site.
For second, just now the post about the auctioned japanese gov disks with tax payer info on them, illustrates how such sensitive data can be lost.
And third, the risk of abuse. All it may take is an election.
So I think it's ok, although not the best, to do have a look at those in power even if the looker has a dirty house themselves. The alternative is worse.
