Surveillance and Privacy Concerns

Comments express strong worries about tech apps, devices, and companies engaging in unauthorized spying and surveillance on users, portraying it as pervasive and inevitable.

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Sample Comments

Pokerface777 Mar 18, 2024 View on HN

What isn't spying on you nowadays?

hungryforcodes Aug 11, 2021 View on HN

Sorry, you mean spying on everyone?

snapplebobapple Jun 17, 2022 View on HN

That sounds like a surveillance nightmare...

yincrash Feb 7, 2017 View on HN

Surveilling users without their knowledge and consent sure sounds like spying to me

api Jun 27, 2022 View on HN

Everything spies on you unless proven otherwise. Seems to be a rule these days.

data-ottawa Mar 29, 2023 View on HN

If we don't spy on you, we won't be sure they aren't spying on you?!

hndamien Aug 5, 2019 View on HN

Seems like a honeypot for surveillance.

TurkishPoptart Jan 17, 2023 View on HN

It's not a panic when it's clear as day this app is used for surveillance purposes

SparkleBunny Aug 22, 2018 View on HN

We don't like being spied on.

joeycfan Apr 11, 2011 View on HN

Great - how soon before this sucker is surveilling us?