I've been thinking about this a lot with regards to Waymo.
Google already knows just about everything one can know about us on the internet. And if you use Google Maps or Android, they already know a lot about how you move through the real world... where you live, where you work, where you shop, who your friends and family are.
Adding in a network of vehicles that are always "patrolling" the streets of every city, covered with sensors, driving us all around... It's a dataset that's any twentieth-century dictator's dream come true.
”It's a dataset that's any twentieth-century dictator's dream come true.”
That’s what I am thinking too. Together with devices that listen to what’s said in every home, services that track your every move on the internet and the real world, automated facial recognition and the ability to read all your communication the capabilities we have now would make the Nazis, Stalin or the Ingsoc party if “1984” very envious. They could only dream of having this.
Not really. If google has a network of cars all over the public observing and over 75% of smartphone users feeding data to them, avoiding using google services directly doesn’t buy you nearly as much privacy as you think.
Google even buys credit card transaction data so they have info on you even without a google account.
Google already knows just about everything one can know about us on the internet. And if you use Google Maps or Android, they already know a lot about how you move through the real world... where you live, where you work, where you shop, who your friends and family are.
Adding in a network of vehicles that are always "patrolling" the streets of every city, covered with sensors, driving us all around... It's a dataset that's any twentieth-century dictator's dream come true.