Michael

Why are you downplaying this behavior?

Tech companies and their subsidiaries/partners would be wise to control their emissions and fluid output, ensuring the safety and the health of those around them - including respecting the planet we live on.

It’s their responsibility.

“There’s no expectation of privacy in public.”

There’s no expectation of privacy anywhere. This has all been taken way too far.

Corporations have been already making profiles of various types for a while now in the form of adtech, social media, data brokers, people search websites, credit scores, devices and services that harvest sensitive and intimate data (e.g. mobile phone apps, watching habits from smart TVs, driving data from cars).

Our society has been set up for mass surveillance in a thousand different ways as a form of social control and dominance by those who wield power.

It’s time people realize that privacy is a right instead of normalizing abuses of consent.

Related watch for those interested in learning more: https://youtu.be/7f_V9zZNzTY

You can be assured that it’s not just Russia and China feeding it garbage. There is a vast amount of propaganda in all forms of media that AI is trained on, and a lot likely originates from the west.