iPhone IOS4 tracks your every move

[Tinker]

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... ?GT1=43001

[skyhook77sfg]

Competing with a heretofore government monopoly (NSA Echelon) could be risky business.

Especially when it goes public.

[Tinker]

[Torchwood]

Apple are serious and annoying control freaks, and behave at times as if they are above the law, let alone ethics. I have deleted iTunes from my PC because it puts in all sorts of tracking cookies as fast as you remove them. I only download Music in MP3 format, and can buy it just as well from the likes of Amazon and 7 Digital.

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[AzariLoveIran]

[Torchwood]

[Mattmovies]

This goes along with what I've been saying for years: We will give up our privacy (and rights) in exchange for services.

What this makes me wonder about are the mischief that can be had. Trading phones with someone and robbing a bank for instance, would be a real dick move, but because that data would cause tunnel vision to the police, they'd forget to look at all the other ways one could find out who did it. The poor phone owner would have to be in jail for probably a week before the whole thing was sorted out.

As that comic Torchwood provided suggests, this info could be really bad for employers to have because cultural assumptions could cause some bad interpretations. For instance, I've read that there are some employers that want to know if an employee has been to a psychologist. The assumption is that if they've been to one, they are crazy. The right answer, in my opinion, is that the employee took it upon themselves to fix whatever problem they are dealing with. Getting rid of the diagnosed and treated crazies is not going to prevent work place shootings and crazy behavior, because untreated crazies do those things. This is also another way to clamp down on all pleasures in life. Drink at bars? Not hired. Support your local metaphysical shop? Not hired. Go to movies starring Kevin James? Leave now.*

This is all hall monitor behavior that supports the bigger crises: The End of Fun.

I support a MAD policy when in comes to privacy. If you can get on the internet and see me naked, well I can do the same to you just as easily. (Of course this probably won't matter when bosses are firing people that see anything naked, including their spouses.) What this does to future human behavior could be a real game changer (and hilarious in a mean spirited way). Women would put on make up all day, even when sleeping. Some people would have to turn out all the lights before picking their nose. People that shave their own pets would do so in an old shed or risk getting a nasty letter from the Pet Grooming Association of America for depriving them of $20. And relationships would be twice as boring (we already have this phenomena with Facebook, relationship pace has quickened when you don't have to learn straight from the horse's mouth that they like to read Jack Vance books).

But then, what are the conveniences you get? Only complete idiots will perform public crimes because the chances of getting caught will be closer to 100% than ever (unless the towers are down, during those times there will be an increase in unsolved crime). You'll know when your children are lying to you (but they won't because Apple will have a tally on lies, and above a certain point they will be condemned to homelessness, repeated to them in school at 1pm every week day). When someone carrying a shotgun is walking to your house, you'll get a text. If a tornado passes through your hometown, you can immediately know if your house got hit. And, if you want a date a girl you spotted on the subway, find out where she frequents and "run into her spontaneously" much more easily. (Stalker and Creep are going to alter in meaning significantly, and for the girl that is getting this kind of attention, at least he'll show up "spontaneously" with your favorite flowers, will like the same kind of music, and just happen to have tickets to that concert that you wanted to go to).

*I know, some bosses won't hire people unless they know how to relax and have fun, but why do we need either type judging us? Why is our hirability the only asset of humanity we should value?

[YMix]

Because we live in a society which focuses on economics.

[Mattmovies]

This is true. It's also true that every day, someone pretends to like something they don't to get access to certain social networks. I think that Facebook's legacy is going to be that it turned its members taste in shampoo and soda pop into a concrete reason to be rejected in a job search. Odd ideas will start to circulate that "cream soda lovers are bad employees because they are anti authoritarian." Guilty pleasures of all sorts will evaporate. Even if marijuana is legalized, no one will smoke it because of social stigma. Especially if your toilet starts to publicize the contents you flush. The odd thing about some of this tech is that it has the potential to bring out the Salem in the States. Not to put people in jail, but to make them guilty of stuff that they shouldn't be.

[Colonel Sun]

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[Colonel Sun]

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[Apollonius]

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[Tinker]

I will make sure to implement it at events I organize.

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