Data | Philosophy Tube
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited in privacy and surveillance threads as a thoughtful treatment of being compelled to share data and the nothing-to-hide argument.
What it is
A Philosophy Tube video essay on data, surveillance and the algorithms built on personal information, touching on Cambridge Analytica and the 'nothing to hide' argument.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2020 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends pdkl95 · 2020-02 · on “Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care”
"Unless we scan your card, you can't buy alcohol." PhilosophyTube recently posted a great video essay (Socratic dialogue?) that explores that exact situation. [this video]
Cites loup-vaillant · 2021-07 · on “Technical Introduction to the Use of Trusted Platform Module 2.0 with Linux [pdf]”
It is not at all clear that we French were actually refusing to get vaccinated. First, it would seem the least vaccinated people were generally the poorest as well. The vaccine is free, but we generally need to get an appointment through some web site, on our own initiative . Our appointed family doctor did not call us to even ask whether we'd like to be vaccinated. This hints towards an accessibility problem. Second, when you look at the charts [LINK] (Click the "Injections Quotidiennes" tab on the second figure.), you can see that the daily injection didn't fall. It merely plateaued. Sure, first injections did fall, but they did so at the same time second injections were soaring, so they c
Cites FrustratedMonky · 2024-01 · on “Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more”
It is such a hollow argument. Anybody using "nothing to hide" arguments, go ahead and post your passwords. Philosophy Tube episode on this [this video]