
JRE#163 - Doug Stanhope, Joey DIaz, Brian Redban
2 months ago
The Joe Rgan Experience Podcast #163 - Doug Stanhope, Joey DIaz, Brian Redban
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You need to get Henry Rollins on the show!
I hope they never stop
I wanted to shed some light on part of the show given my experience with tech. Technically everything you do on a phone, computer, gaming console, camera, etc logs data to a database. It's literally how computers work. Every computing device has internal databases. If something connects to the internet the information exchanged is logged in several databases that range from the device itself to the service provider (in Androids case Verizon & Sprint, in iPhones case ATT) as well as the device manufacturer's database. A log of the data has to be created so that it can be accessed and sent along to the next destination. When you connect to the internet, no matter what you are connecting from, you connection piggybacks over several servers in a elephant walk designed to send your photo of nothing to Facebook.
There are varied levels of this practice. Certainly it can be argued that there is an ethical obligation for everyone logging activities to have it encrypted and regularly purged. Unfortunately this data is valuable, but not for the CIA as much as it is for Proctor and Gamble. If the CIA wants your data they will get it regardless. Major business interests however do not have a use for one person's data. They only have a need for a large swath of data compressed into a table of trends. That's when this stuff has real value. Each of one million text messages, tweets or emails could have a certain amount of trend and brand information contained within them. That data is consolidated and sold at a remarkably high price.
To summarize, it is the function of computers of all sorts to log what happens as it happens. The data entered cannot exist without a reference. It is how often these references are purged and/or how they are packaged and sold that matters. But the logging of data is an essential part of how it works, to varying degrees of deviousness.
I don't think it's okay to monitor and sell personal information for individuals or groups. But nothing can change when people argue against it with a fundamental misunderstanding of how the device or activity they are using works. So you cant go to your legislator or a lawyer and say "I want tech companies to stop using databases" because every single device is able to react to the user due to some level of database activity. You can organize and demand that personal data be encrypted on receipt and purged regularly. Make it illegal to sell personal and group data to marketing firms. I am all about all of these things. But if people don't understand the technology it simply won't happen.