Evil Is Easy
Google’s Privacy Backpedal Shows Why It’s So Hard Not to Be Evil
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/opinion/google-privacy-big-tech.html
Gobbling user data despite claims of protecting it has become normalized, although hardly news to those who follow the official spy industry complex by which the Three Branches, national security agencies and their bountiful contractors, along with global treaty arrangements, have been doing this very thing from their beginning, whether newly formed or ancient.
The exact same technology, methodology, rationale, deception, false assurances and highly rewarding practices for participants are as old and widely endorsed and secretized and lied about for corporations as for governments.
The internet is a classic example of the subterfuge but not terribly original when compared to previous mass population surveillance by authorities: networks of couriers, troubadours, emissaries, informers, agents, preachers, teachers have a history as long as congregations of humans led by scoundrels.
On to modern days of communication and indoctrination: education, religion, politics, wars, telegrams, telephones, radios, gadgets for spying, some suggest practice of law and journalism, have willingly served authorities by seducing and snitching on their customers to satisfy regulations and terms of government contracts.
This is not to formulaicly criticize the well-known benefits of duplicity by a treacherous insider cohort against the much wider consuming public, that suspicion and paranoia are themselves a shrewd part of the racketeering.
Instead, think what to do without cheating. Cheers.