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"Even Google staff complain that they can't figure out how to turn off location tracking [in Android]. Now, in any kind of sane world, this would be a prohibited activity. Section Five of the Federal Trade Commission Act gives the agency broad latitude to intervene to prevent ‘unfair and deceptive’ practices... And yet governments have taken no action."
#CoryDoctorow, 2023
https://www.tni.org/en/article/seizing-the-means-of-computation
"...there's about a one in five chance per year that any given defect will be independently rediscovered and used by either criminals or a hostile government, which means that the US government exposed its stakeholders, firms and individuals to a gigantic amount of risk by discovering these defects and then not moving swiftly to plug up these loopholes. And that risk really is best expressed in the current ransomware epidemic [eg Waikato DHB]..."
#CoryDoctorow, 2023
https://www.tni.org/en/article/seizing-the-means-of-computation
"We have frozen tech in time by allowing firms that have access to the capital markets to decide what the future of tech is going to look like. It's a planned economy, but it's one that's planned by a few very powerful financiers and the executives of a few large companies, not by lawmakers or democratically accountable government – or indeed by an autocrat, or at least an autocrat in office. We get autocrats in boardrooms these days."
Cory Doctorow, 2023
https://www.tni.org/en/article/seizing-the-means-of-computation
Hey there Anticommunists, John Birchers, et al, the "Communism" (TM) you fear has already taken over. Unaccountable transnational bureaucracies *are* planning the global economy for their own empowerment and enrichment, at the expense of the rest of us (and the environment). But the people running it are not Marxist-Leninist tankies or Maoist guerillas. They're the owners and executives of multinational corporations, and their ideologies are Taylorism and Vulgar Smithism, not Marxism or Maoism.