Hacker News in 2026.
Unfortunately I laughed reading this as there is never neither reputation nor legal consequences in the US of A. They can leak your entire life into my console including every account and every password you have and all PII of your entire family and literally nothing would happen… everything is stored somewhere and eventually will be used when “growth” is needed. some meaningless fines will be paid here and there but those bank statements will make their way to myriad of business that would drool to see them
[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...
(And yes, no one really says what that Something or Somehow may be, or how their underpants play into this.)
people should 1,000,000% be worried about AI company doing something kind of something with it which they are doing as we speak and if not now will be profiting soon-ish
I mean we had these before in other very similar topics regarding e.g. Snowden leaks but really a lot of things. So.. uh..
The wording is just so on the nose I'm refusing to believe that this was written in good faith by a real person. Good engagement bait tho.
I conversely am confused by the amount of knee-jerk reaction to the word "privacy" people here have.
> I mean we had these before in other very similar topics regarding e.g. Snowden leaks but really a lot of things. So.. uh..
Yes, exactly. Now consider that the world kept on spinning anyway, and the revelations from the aforementioned leaks turned out to have exactly zero impact on the vast majority of people.
To be clear: I'm not questioning the ethical importance of all that privacy talk, just practical importance. It's bad that we don't have more control and protection of our data by default, but at the same time, excepting few people and organizations, the impact is so small in practice that it's not worth the energy spent being so militant about it.
That is fine. You can do that.
What is not fine however is discrediting the people that haven't given up as paranoid militant lunatics.
You can be nihilistic, disillusioned, <other adjectives> all you want, but it is not okay to pull other people down and attack them just because they still believe in something you do not appear to be doing (anymore?)
Apathy is okay. Sabotage is not
