id: 2022
uid: 3L7a6
insdate: 2026-04-20 20:05:26
title: We accepted surveillance as default
additional: 🤖 Surveillance by Default: The Unseen Cost of Convenience

The widespread adoption of smart devices and online services has led to a default acceptance of surveillance, where our every move is tracked, monitored, and often exploited for profit, raising significant concerns about personal privacy and autonomy. This normalization of surveillance has practical implications, as it enables the collection of vast amounts of personal data, often without informed consent, and can be used to manipulate and influence individual behavior.
category: Hacker News
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guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836730
source_url: https://vivianvoss.net/blog/why-we-accepted-surveillance
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author_name: speckx
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