alt Hacker News> They’re building a pocket-sized, screenless device with built-in cameras and microphones — “contextually aware,” designed to replace your phone.
"Contextually aware" means "complete surveillance".
Too many people speak of ads, not enough people speak about the normalization of the global surveillance machine, with Big Brother waiting around the corner.
Instead, MY FELLOW HUMANS are, or will be, programmed to accept and want their own little "Big Brother's little brother" in their pocket, because it's usefull and or makes them feel safe and happy.
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alansaber • yesterday at 2:48 PM
Already here. Even without flexible but dodgy LLM automation, entities like marketing companies have had access to extreme amounts of user data for a long time.
> not enough people speak about the normalization of the global surveillance machine, with Big Brother waiting around the corner
Everyone online is constantly talking about it. The truth is for most people it's fine.
Some folks are upset by it. But we by and large tend to just solve the problem at the smallest possible scale and then mollify ourselbves with whining. (I don't have social media. I don't have cameras in or around my home. I've worked on privacy legislation, but honestly nobody called their representatives and so nothing much happened. I no longer really bring up privacy issues when I speak to my electeds because I haven't seen evidence that nihilism has passed.)