• @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    New thing could become mandatory in a future and give governments direct access to our eyes, thoughts, hearing…

    Smart phone tracking would become a joke in comparison.

    • @Uncle_Iroh
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      -41 year ago

      Do you always take things way further then they’ll ever go? It’s pretty much blatant flanderazation at this point.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        It is called “thinking ahead of the consequences”, and it is done with every mayor decision.

        Better than waiting until they happen to respond.

          • @TheGrandNagus
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            11 year ago

            That’s not what flanderisation is. I don’t know why you keep repeating this word.

            Flanderisation is when a previously varied an complex fictional character gets one or a few of their traits exaggerated more and more over time, until it becomes their entire personality.

            E.g. Ned Flanders, who was originally just a foil to Homer Simpson. Friendlier, more devout in belief, less potty-mouthed, physically fitter, nicer (while still attainable) home, untroubled family, etc. He represented what Homer wanted to be and was jealous of.

            Over time he was flanderised to just being an uber-religious nut with essentially nothing else to his personality.

            Flanderisation is not when people are weary of how technology is being used and will continue to be used by large businesses and governments to track what we do and build extensive profiles on us.

        • @ShittyRedditWasBetter
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          01 year ago

          Somehow you’ve conflated risk planning and mitigation with telling random what ifs on the Internet.

        • @MindSkipperBro12
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          01 year ago

          Following that line of logic, if the Feds say that we should lower emissions, you’ll cry out about how they’re going to take your car.

    • @[email protected]
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      -81 year ago

      We could also all be living under a social credit score system like in China, but most of us aren’t. Just because something could become our reality, doesn’t mean we should avoid all progress in that field.

      • newIdentity
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        71 year ago

        But Smartphones are tracked and hacked by governments. And it is legal in most cases. And people are killed by governments.

        • darcyOP
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          81 year ago

          the government only ever kills bad people, right? its not like laws will ever change

          • newIdentity
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            In the end it doesn’t matter if it’s legal or not. They will do it anyways. Like it was the case with Preditor and the Greek government. Or Pegasus and Mexico. In the case of Pegasus and Mexico, people actually died.