“Yesterday, Evernote announced some changes to its privacy policy that proved to be very controversial. To help with its machine learning efforts, some employees would gain the ability to see users’ personal notes.
The changes weren’t meant to go into effect until January 23, and now they won’t be. In fact, the firm has admitted that it has made a mistake, and is now trying to make sure that its users know that they can still trust it.”
And really, shouldn’t they have known better? Maybe stop and think before violating your user’s privacy?
Proving your identity and your age eliminates the ability for anyone to remain anonymous. You might argue that is a good thing, but I’ll take the opposite side. There are plenty of reasons for someone to remain anonymous online, and why we’d be worse off eliminating that. Whistleblowers, political dissidents of fascist governments, victims of childhood and spousal abuse, people dealing with mental health issues, women, the LGBTQ community, and many others have legitimate reasons to fear being identified. Do we want to eliminate them all from the public space?
Actually, what we’re seeing more and more is that tech companies are moving forward with amazing stuff, but not really thinking about the consequences of it being misused. Take, for example, this BBC segment about Adobe. In it, the narrator points out that the new technology Adobe is coming up with could easily be used…
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