Software is devil-is-in-the-details to the extreme, and maximally opaque even to programmer-capable consumers, much less general consumers.
And all tech companies are now founded with zero regard for good behavior. I mean, they don't even do minimal amounts of customer service, which is the bare minimum of having regard for your customers.
In general, the IoT industry has suffered and adopters get burned over and over and over so the market is what it deserves in the long run. But that doesn't mean that snooping and monitoring doesn't increase insidiously year after year.
This is a serious problem with future technology. What person would do cybernetics or similar life saving products from companies like this? Perhaps the rigor that Medtronic and similar device companies are subjected to would apply, but I'm not sure those regulations cover information security and privacy.
We are clearly in an age of increasing authoritarianism. China has become far more authoritarian under Xi, right wing fascists are on the rise in Europe, and extreme partisanism just leads to round robin authoritarianism on the path we're on, assuming the next election happens. Russia is trying to expand its reach, and disrupt democratic institutions worldwide.
Undermined privacy and data collection is the tools for total information awareness by authoritarian states, only made far far far far far far far worse by the rise of functional AI.
The future of humanity is bleak. The filter approaches.
> Perhaps the rigor that Medtronic and similar device companies are subjected to would apply, but I'm not sure those regulations cover information security and privacy.
As someone on an insulin pump they do. Iirc they have reps showing up at hacker conferences looking for red teams.
Definitely agree with your worries generally though.
And all tech companies are now founded with zero regard for good behavior. I mean, they don't even do minimal amounts of customer service, which is the bare minimum of having regard for your customers.
In general, the IoT industry has suffered and adopters get burned over and over and over so the market is what it deserves in the long run. But that doesn't mean that snooping and monitoring doesn't increase insidiously year after year.
This is a serious problem with future technology. What person would do cybernetics or similar life saving products from companies like this? Perhaps the rigor that Medtronic and similar device companies are subjected to would apply, but I'm not sure those regulations cover information security and privacy.
We are clearly in an age of increasing authoritarianism. China has become far more authoritarian under Xi, right wing fascists are on the rise in Europe, and extreme partisanism just leads to round robin authoritarianism on the path we're on, assuming the next election happens. Russia is trying to expand its reach, and disrupt democratic institutions worldwide.
Undermined privacy and data collection is the tools for total information awareness by authoritarian states, only made far far far far far far far worse by the rise of functional AI.
The future of humanity is bleak. The filter approaches.