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My wife asked me why I was speaking so softly at home. I told her I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening! She laughed. I laughed. Alexa laughed. Siri laughed.
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…this joke suggests that we’re surrounded by spies, especially our smartphones (the most dangerous… untrustworthy gadgets that ever existed), we still believe nobody “watches” us, but is that true, is that so ?! just remember “1984”, George Orwell knew exactly what will be “going on” soon or later, he knew very well, he truly was a genius, and I don’t understand why it’s considered a dystopian social sci-fi idea… to me his prophecy isn’t “dystopian” at all, it’s a very harsh reality right now – everything you have said, everything you wrote in messages, every photo or video you’ve made, everything of your life that was processed via your smartphone is stored somewhere at the corporate… cloud-clusters (don’t know how to call such things : )
…they say we can apply our data to be erased, according to the laws at any time, probably in Asia, Australia, or Africa… don’t know, they may have different regulations, but in Europe EU data protection legislation is comprised of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Law Enforcement Directive (LED), and the Data Protection Regulation for EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies (EUDPR), that’s convincing enough for us, even more than enough… but the simple truth is we never ask – when did you do that, can you remember when your data were deleted from Apple’s datacenters (for example), I never asked to delete something nor anything, hope you did : )
(s. guraziu – ap, m 25)
