• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Just remove algorithms that are predictive in nature. Everything non-deterministic, targeted to anything more than high level and imprecise location or similar should be illegal. At the end of the day, the spirit of the law needs to be that dragnet mass surveillance, and the capture and sale of user data for predictive purposes, is an information asymmetry that is an attack vector for propaganda, manipulation, coercion, and general logical corruption of a population.

    It is an imminent national security threat to allow such practices, which benefit the most unethical and immoral criminal participants, the most.