Stop Whining About Privacy, Michael Bloomberg Says

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62. There are cameras in your phone, your laptop, your television,

In every parking lot, almost every store. There are thousands of cookies and deamons running on your computer from the various sites you visit and comment on collecting data on your purchases, likes and opinions so that corporations can target their ads to suit you. That information is collected and sold over and over and over without your knowledge or benefit. Game companies and software companies force you to accept long contracts no one reads that install spyware on your computer in order to use the product you purchased on your own machine. But damn, a camera on the street used to give tickets to people driving through a red light or in an area of high crime? Can't have that. So what if traffic lights alleviate traffic and pedestrian accidents. So what if crimes like selling drugs and burglary go down. (Studies show it doesnt help violent crime though, because those tend to be crimes of passion) So what if those cameras help solve crimes so that there is justice for the victims? If the government is collecting that information we get outraged and suspect all kinds of nefarious things are being done with that information. Why are we not equally outraged about how corporations are already digging into our private lives and selling that information? Bloomberg may be a puffed up billionaire ass but he has a point in that it makes no sense to deny government the use of the same information every one else already has their hands on. How are we supposed to go back to the world where this information isn't so readily available. Remember government is (supposed to be) us.