[always2slow]

Doesn't really matter when google itself makes its data and infrastructure available for "target acquisition" AI. See Project Maven and Nimbus.

[rrix2]

Damn I guess we shouldn't do any small step to improve society somewhat unless we can overhaul systems entirely all at once!

Personally, I'd prefer to see us fight for successively smaller and smaller blast radii than simply hoping and praying the blasts disappeared entirely.

[always2slow]

Small steps get us things like pop ups on every webpage or TSA. You'll just slowly create a bureaucratic dystopia. We need giant sweeping reform of privacy laws in the US and a restoration of the 4th amendment.

[shadowgovt]

Of course it matters. A bad thing being bad doesn't imply a good thing isn't good.

[always2slow]

Not in the context of the government buying the data, they'll just buy it from google instead of shadowgovt.databroker.com. It's a red herring, a feel good feature that just limit's googles competition and doesn't really change the information collected on us.