Hi all,
I just discovered this study from "Freedom to tinker" [1] that clearly shows clinic evidence of psychotic disorders by few web market operators who pretend to track every single bit of users data with a new "technology" called "session replay scripts":
«These scripts record your keystrokes, mouse movements, and scrolling behavior, along with the entire contents of the pages you visit, and send them to third-party servers. Unlike typical analytics services that provide aggregate statistics, these scripts are intended for the recording and playback of individual browsing sessions, as if someone is looking over your shoulder.»
in some cases passwords are included in session recordings
I'm always astonished by the fantasy _and_ resources some group of people is willing to invest to try to control users
apart from the clinical evidences, this also clearly shows that GDPR [2] - that I *really* appreciate - will be as easily circumvented as the European Union's net-neutrality rules _are_ circumvented [3]; this is why I agree with #youbroketheinternet [4] folks that _both_ "net neutrality" and "no massive surveillance market" can be achieved with and _only_ with a GNU Internet, aka a free Internet *by design* (please do _not_ consider the web as the whole Internet, as some unfortunately tend to do)
my conviction is stronger after I read of another working paper [5] co-authored from a Stanford senior fellow that shows that privacy tends to take a backseat to convenience and can easily get tossed out the window for a reward as simple as free pizza
please consider that I *suspect* that this state of mind is also valid if you think about user data "leaked" from our computing devices, not "just" the web
<joke> I'm addicted to pizza and **they know* that! so if they promise to give me a pizza I'll let them track any data they want about me without making any question... where's my pizza?!? :-D </joke>
ciao Giovanni
[1] hosted by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation [3] http://www.businessinsider.com/net-neutrality-portugal-how-american-internet... [4] http://youbroketheinternet.org/ [5] https://news.stanford.edu/2017/08/03/pizza-privacy-stanford-economist-examin...
Hi Giovanni,
I do not think it's appropriate to speculate on the mental health of people you politically disagree with.
Best, Duncan
Giovanni Biscuolo:
Hi all,
I just discovered this study from "Freedom to tinker" [1] that clearly shows clinic evidence of psychotic disorders by few web market operators who pretend to track every single bit of users data with a new "technology" called "session replay scripts":
«These scripts record your keystrokes, mouse movements, and scrolling behavior, along with the entire contents of the pages you visit, and send them to third-party servers. Unlike typical analytics services that provide aggregate statistics, these scripts are intended for the recording and playback of individual browsing sessions, as if someone is looking over your shoulder.»
in some cases passwords are included in session recordings
I'm always astonished by the fantasy _and_ resources some group of people is willing to invest to try to control users
apart from the clinical evidences, this also clearly shows that GDPR [2] - that I *really* appreciate - will be as easily circumvented as the European Union's net-neutrality rules _are_ circumvented [3]; this is why I agree with #youbroketheinternet [4] folks that _both_ "net neutrality" and "no massive surveillance market" can be achieved with and _only_ with a GNU Internet, aka a free Internet *by design* (please do _not_ consider the web as the whole Internet, as some unfortunately tend to do)
my conviction is stronger after I read of another working paper [5] co-authored from a Stanford senior fellow that shows that privacy tends to take a backseat to convenience and can easily get tossed out the window for a reward as simple as free pizza
please consider that I *suspect* that this state of mind is also valid if you think about user data "leaked" from our computing devices, not "just" the web
<joke> I'm addicted to pizza and **they know* that! so if they promise to give me a pizza I'll let them track any data they want about me without making any question... where's my pizza?!? :-D </joke>
ciao Giovanni
[1] hosted by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation [3] http://www.businessinsider.com/net-neutrality-portugal-how-american-internet...
[4] http://youbroketheinternet.org/ [5] https://news.stanford.edu/2017/08/03/pizza-privacy-stanford-economist-examin...
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Hi Duncan,
* Duncan [2017-11-26 00:35:00 +0000]:
I do not think it's appropriate to speculate on the mental health of people
thank you for you comment, you made me realize I made a bad mistake!
I did never (ever!) intend to be personal but sometimes my approximate use of language make me dramatically fail
*** so my apologies to all of you! ***
I should have used the term "companies" and _not_ "market operators", sorry
so when reading my previous message please substitute "market operators" with "companies"
for sure by using the term "psychotic disorder" I was *not politically correct*, but I made it on purpose: I wanted to provoke _scandal_
mine was a rhetorical hyperbole, let me put this way: *if* one those few companies where a person - e.g. an husband pretending to track her wife in a *similar way*, even if his justification would be to keep her safe from potential web stalkers or similar kind of threats - I believe that a similar behavior would be considered a psychotic disorder by a specialist (IANAP); it would also be an illegal practice (IANAL)
if you like a more politically correct interpretation, I find the behavior of the few companies that market such an insane user tracking method is antisocial and against every constitutional principle; it will also be an illegal practice (GDPR)
please also consider that I'm a (tiny) web market operator too, and I _love_ to make business with the web: given GDPR soon my competitors using those methods will be **unfair competitors**; they will also be outlaw :-)
again, my apologies for I have been _unintentionally_ personal
I know well that people marketing this tracking practice are not psychotic, they are simply greedy and for that they want excessive control over the users of their customers
«Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in [their] eye?» (Matthew 7:3-5)
ciao Giovanni
Hi Guivanni,
Thank you very much for clarifying this so nicely and for apologizing!
Happy hacking! Florian