I'm so old I remember when the entire tech industry FREAKED THE HECK OUT at the idea of 'Total Information Awareness' and now it's just 'yeah, that's literally our business plan, what's wrong with it'
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Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 20:51:38 UTC Nate Cull - Stephen Michael Kellat repeated this.
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Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 11-Feb-2019 12:09:59 UTC Stephen Michael Kellat @natecull Hmm. Having Admiral Poindexter, who was somehow involved in the Iran-Contra mess, introduce Total Information Awareness under W made it seem rather less warm & cuddly than an Alexa ad perhaps