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fluoridationtoday at 3:37 PM1 replyview on HN

>the fact that it's automatically collected makes it more troubling, not less

I don't think so. You can inflate raw data arbitrarily. They could have laid out on a page the decimal byte values of a one minute video clip of you waiting in line or something. Something redacted by a human would be much more dense in terms of relevant information, and much more digested. If it's just a data dump then at least it's information that not necessarily anyone knows, in the sense of residing in someone's brain.

Information collection is also not necessarily malicious. You can never know what you might need in the future. I was kind of on board with Recall, if the data could live in storage in my control and can I could turn it on and off at will.


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Arainachtoday at 3:59 PM

> Information collection is also not necessarily malicious

Anyone collecting information has an obligation to think about how it could be used in the future - whether by government or by corporation.

McDonald's has also very visibly and successfully switched to gamifying their order selection with machines and dark patterns to drive people to higher priced items, so it's safe for anyone there to assume any data collected will be used to harm customers in such ways.