Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
Or you use confirmation bias to tell yourself it’s an innocuous use case that won’t hurt anyone.
Or you use a bandwagon argument like “everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we” or “everybody else is doing it so it doesn’t make much difference if we do too”
Or you use a library for ads such as the google-ads-api npm package, without checking it, so you don’t realise how much data it’s collecting on your users…
The Peter Thiel Paradox (also the name of my new wave band) “It’s inevitable/you’re only fighting progress, and any regulations will turn it into an authoritarian nightmare. Which is what it’s turning into anyway because it’s simply inevitable. So stop trying to resist by forcing regulations on this inevitable authoritarian nightmare that we had no way of stopping.”
Or you use confirmation bias to tell yourself it’s an innocuous use case that won’t hurt anyone.
Or you use a bandwagon argument like “everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we” or “everybody else is doing it so it doesn’t make much difference if we do too”
Or you use a library for ads such as the google-ads-api npm package, without checking it, so you don’t realise how much data it’s collecting on your users…
Or even worse, “if we don’t it, someone else will anyway”
The Peter Thiel Paradox (also the name of my new wave band) “It’s inevitable/you’re only fighting progress, and any regulations will turn it into an authoritarian nightmare. Which is what it’s turning into anyway because it’s simply inevitable. So stop trying to resist by forcing regulations on this inevitable authoritarian nightmare that we had no way of stopping.”