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An Engineer's Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta

44 points by cdrnsf ago | 4 comments

sophiabits |next [-]

> Selfishly, I don't want my screen scraped because it feels like an invasion of my privacy, [...] But zooming out, I don't want to live in a world where humans—employees or otherwise—are exploited for their training data.

I wonder whether this Meta employee felt the same way about privacy a month ago, before they were personally impacted by this new initiative.

recursivecaveat |next |previous [-]

Selfishly, I don't want to live my every waking moment in a panopticon, but I understand it's really important to the shareholders.

Rough world we've reached where you have to start with a mea culpa about your horrible selfish desire.

SilverElfin |previous [-]

There’s irony here but it’s also an important fight