Can an app wreck your life?
Apparently, so. From Electronic Freedom Foundation to RedState, dark cautionary tales abound. At bottom, it is data brokers to blame, and you really cannot stop them. Even if you pay them to remove your info, it seems to get re-upped with regularity.
You can be wrongly tagged as a terrorist, and you have little recourse, as Cindy Cohn explains a Supreme Court ruling.
You can gaily go around town browsing online for so-called sinners to seek out and perchance to save, and be judged.
Time was, if you had a Ring in your door, you could be subpoenaed by the police. Now, at least, the use of your app to surveille your street may be voluntary... if you use another Amazon app. Matthew Guariglia has it covered.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/ring-changed-how-police-request-door-camera-footage-what-it-means-and-doesnt-meanMatthew Guariglia assembled a horrifying graphic and article to demonstrate the thirteen wonderfully overlapping ways that unlucky urban citizens are watched by Big Brother. It really is a must-read compilation, and --even better-- it includes some suggestions on how to fight back.
Legal bloggers Carrie Dettmer Slye and Julie Singer Brady for Baker & Hostetler LLP discuss (doubtfully) whether all this tracking and spying and brokering of data may meet the standards necessary for class action lawsuits.
Pandora's box was filled with apps, it seems.
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