Roe's overturn is tech's privacy apocalypse
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#2"Tech industry tries to make up for regressive politics"
Hate to say it, but there may not be a technical solution to the failings of the USA.
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#3We can only hope it this will drive some general improvements in privacy protection/data collection. However, I think it's far more likely that we get some hyper-specific protections tailored to avoid a general improvement (e.g. like we have for video tape rental information).
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#4"Tech industry tries to make up for regressive politics" Hate to say it, but there may not be a technical solution to the failings of the USA.
I'd go a little further and say that tech has exacerbated the failings of the USA.
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#5Wonder if Google deleting this information is technically tampering with evidence
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#7Eh, this is the one thing I hoped would push non-tech people like my wife into a more active stance. I showed her one of the related articles discussing apps tracking menstrual cycles and poor HIPAA protections in today's world, but the result was sadly the opposite to what I hoped for. In that particular case, addiction to her favorite games clearly outweighed espoused concern of Roe vs Wade impact.
It is odd. I was sure it would make more of an impact. Maybe habits are stronger than proclaimed views.
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#8> Driving the news: Google announced Friday a new program to automatically delete the location data of users who visit "particularly personal" locations like "counseling centers, domestic violence shelters, abortion clinics, fertility centers, addiction treatment facilities, weight loss clinics, cosmetic surgery clinics, and others."
Yay google! Giving a touch of privacy back to those causes it deems acceptable!!
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#9As much as I don't like laws against abortion, I like tech companies picking and choosing which laws they help the government enforce even less. What we really need is a blanket ban on law enforcement access to private mass collected databases in general.
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#10Wonder if Google deleting this information is technically tampering with evidence
Don't give politicians any ideas.