According to this article, Microsoft is being sued because its smartphones with Windows 7 come with a very outstanding --and smart-- feature: they track you down!
What's the problem with that if Apple and Google do the same?
Well, apparently, the system designed by Microsoft asks you for your permission to "collect geographical data" (good!!) but it keeps tracking you even if you choose not to give it your consent. WOW! That's what I call innovative!
Now, this is not just about MS. My concern here is more about technology meddling with people's privacy and rights...and with people accepting it sheepishly or worse, ignoring about it totally. "Privacy is dead," apparently said Zuck from Facebook...
I'm not against a company's tracking or information-collecting practices...as far as customers agree to that. But how come they can still do it even after people have said "no"?
Is this the way we are headed? Are we at the mercy of companies? Is it that individuals have lost all their rights and now the only rights that count are those of the corporate entities?
Technology advances faster than our ethical vision does, it seems...
Those hidden tracking policies are on the rise. It's funny that no one complains and it's even stranger that companies always "decline to comment", as if they could escape their responsibility just like that.
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