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I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]

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354 points qingcharles | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 02:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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dsign ◴[21 Apr 25 04:55 UTC] No.43748593[source]▶
I have a washing machine that won't let me use it fully without installing an app that asks for permission to track my GPS coordinates at all time, in my phone. HomeWhiz.There should be a law against selling new hardware that demands that sort of thing to function, or to have full functionality. But I would be happy if procedures to bring class-auction lawsuits against companies that engage in this kind of bait-and-ransom were somehow simpler.
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1. willtemperley ◴[21 Apr 25 05:39 UTC] No.43748767[source]▶
Unfortunately, governments are highly incentivised to allow mandatory on-device spyware to feed your location into the global information market.

Why run a sophisticated surveillance and information retrieval system when a you can just ask big-tech for the data for free, or buy from the market at a fraction of the running cost of a dedicated system?

Personally I think the best way to combat this is for concerned people to build businesses with privacy as a feature. Dumb TVs, dumb washing machines etc.