Every major privacy disaster that does not lead to dramatic repercusions convinces CEO's (and the shareholders that pay their salaries and bonuses) that the "move fast and break things" strategy is the winning strategy.
The result is that that we are no more than five years away (at most) from the surveilance economy getting a terminal stranglehold on society.
You will not be able to buy a car that is not always dialing home, the same way you already cannot buy a mobile that is not always dialing home.
In any case you will not be buying a car. You'll be buying a subscription to a car, renewable annualy under certain (small-print) terms of service.
Cars will not work without some insurance conglomerate receiving all information it wants and trading your behavioral data in opaque insurance markets.
Cars could stop working at any point. A digital roadblock is much cheaper and more comprehensive that a physical roadblock.
Taking public transport was never private (its in the name after all) but this mobility mode too is getting deeply integrated in the surveillance economy: you will only be able to pay for a trip using identifying mobile devices.
The argument is that people "don't care" about the direction things are taking. This is the most evil argument ever advanced.
All of this is being done in some level of secrecy so they're conflating not caring with not knowing or even worse people know something is going on but not the full details.
Society only works because there is massive amount of trust. It is mostly implicit trust, people don't sign fully-informed contracts left and right. People operate under the assumption that (during peacetime) they can go about their lives without worrying about a specific other subgroup organizing to systematically and explicitly work against their interests. I.e. they don't feel under attack and so they don't behave as such.
The result is that that we are no more than five years away (at most) from the surveilance economy getting a terminal stranglehold on society.
You will not be able to buy a car that is not always dialing home, the same way you already cannot buy a mobile that is not always dialing home.
In any case you will not be buying a car. You'll be buying a subscription to a car, renewable annualy under certain (small-print) terms of service.
Cars will not work without some insurance conglomerate receiving all information it wants and trading your behavioral data in opaque insurance markets.
Cars could stop working at any point. A digital roadblock is much cheaper and more comprehensive that a physical roadblock.
Taking public transport was never private (its in the name after all) but this mobility mode too is getting deeply integrated in the surveillance economy: you will only be able to pay for a trip using identifying mobile devices.
The argument is that people "don't care" about the direction things are taking. This is the most evil argument ever advanced.