cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52022727

Looks like everyone who raised awareness about “Mark Zuckerberg Pervert Glasses” ultimately made a real difference <3

  • @[email protected]
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    36 hours ago

    No, we shouldn’t shame people for using a device that happens to have a microphone. But we absolutely should shame people who knowingly and flagrantly use recording devices with a complete disregard to other people’s privacy.

    • just another devA
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      02 hours ago

      Honestly, I personally even barely care about the individual people who do this - that’s been a thing for nearly 20 years now. Don’t get me wrong - secretly filming people is creepy as fuck, and it’s rightly illegal without consent in a lot of places.

      But I’m more pissed off about is that beside the individuals, it’s also being saved by corporations on an unprecedented and almost inconceivable scale. But it doesn’t even stop at that massive privacy invasion - that data is then used, processed and extrapolated to wring every known piece of data out of it, to make a profit for those companies. Plus, since it’s stored, they will also use it in the future, in ways we haven’t even considered right now.

      All of which without you knowing, or your consent. Creeps are one problem, but imho it’s nothing compared to the companies that actually profit from it.