How does requiring a company to delete info from a specific computer materially impact the ability for others to speak truth?
It feels like you’re talking purely philosophically and ignoring the nuance of our legal system.
SCOTUS, including right wing literalists, have held that Constitutional rights are not iron clad in all contexts.
Main Street seems to believe the first amendment is very broad, but then there’s the whole shouting fire in a crowded room. Instigating acts of violence and threats, etc.
Freedom from and freedom to are distinct concepts in our legal system.
The privacy risk is not the same and the convenience to mitigate is not there
I can leave my phone at home when I go out. In another room. Shut it off. I do all of these things quite regularly.
Do I go around and disable numerous smarthome gadgets for privacy or stick with my oh so terrible life without them? Bonus! I can avoid awkward conversations with my guests.
People buy products because we feel they help us be better. There’s little real utility towards bettering myself with a colorful, and extra power sucking, thermostat at home all the time.
Given how outdated most Android phones are, they are substantially more of a security risk than a Nest (of some sort), Alexa, or Apple smart speaker. With Google your facing someone substantially fucking up, a search warrant, or compromised account. A random compromised Android phone, just about anything or anyone and the only giveaway is going to be the battery draining faster than expected.
Have you ever seen a verified case of a smartphone operating while off? I have only seen rumors. If you are going to be that paranoid then how do you know removing batteries turns it off? Maybe there is a Secret battery for spying on people.
Sure for hardware, real time, embedded use cases (and probably others), makes sense.
Does it matter for data analysis and most web apps, infra as code, etc? Which data scientists do you know fetishize how Python is laying out memory?
OOP is a hot mess. Yes, I know, you’re all very well versed in how to use it “right”, but the concept enables a mess. It’s the C of coding paradigms when it would be great to have a paradigm that pushes towards Rust, and reduces the chance for hot messes from the start.
Most of this work is organizing run of the mill business information. Why it works from a math perspective is more universally applicable and interesting anyway.
It feels like you’re talking purely philosophically and ignoring the nuance of our legal system.
SCOTUS, including right wing literalists, have held that Constitutional rights are not iron clad in all contexts.
Main Street seems to believe the first amendment is very broad, but then there’s the whole shouting fire in a crowded room. Instigating acts of violence and threats, etc.
Freedom from and freedom to are distinct concepts in our legal system.