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'Facial recognition' error message on vending machine sparks concern at University of Waterloo
(kitchener.ctvnews.ca)
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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When did it become ok for people to be violated so profusely without any consequence?
When society started paying for convenience?
At the dawn of civilization? Lol
Prostitutes, the world's oldest profession, could be argued to be paying for convenience.
People also probably paid for cooked meals pretty early in civilization.
No phones back then, changed the game :)
And you can bet your ass that prostitutes sold information about their clients, if offered any compnsation for it. :)
There was a quaint old time, shortly after Google was founded, where people mused about privacy over the internet. It was forgotten about as the profits started rolling in and pretty much all other companies started following along. That was the time when we started transitioning into a period of massive data surveillance. Glad to see that the conversation is starting to pick up again in some areas, though it's definitely being actively suppressed in many others.
In the 18th century. That's when capitalism really got rolling and when Adam Smith wrote his crap.
Alternatively: 1493
Laws and lawyers. You can't go there and beat them up. That pretty much paved the way. Money is just a toy to them. So there is zero risk involved.