Oh what shock when I open up MacRumors and I see a photo of New York's own Chuck Schumer.
Here comes a flood of political debate posts.
For a few of the people that just want to hate:
He's been out Senator since 1998, and there's a good reason. He's actually not a nose-up money-hoarding snob like 9 out of 10 politicians out there. He's very much for-the-people, and he has no problem taking part in small-town events, large-scale fundraisers, and otherwise "insignificant" events that most politicians wouldn't even recognize. He's a very concerned individual, and this is one of the many examples. He does a lot that goes under the national media's radar. As we know, only the mud-slinging goes on there. He's not about that in the least.
For the rest that just want to turn this thread into Political ridicule, I can do nothing about that. People have their minds made up no matter what happens, and many are too stubborn to change and realize when they're just being obtuse. Well, I'm not here to heal the blind. Just sharing what I feel.
As far as this thread goes, Chuck Schumer has every right to question why this is happening. If any other politician had questioned such practices, you'd all be ridiculing them instead. You can't win against the stubborn. People would complain no matter who it was. Since it just happened to be Schumer, let's all hate on Schumer. I love it; especially coming from those OUTSIDE of New York that have absolutely little to no idea what he does within the state.
It really grinds my gears that people criticize a place or a person from a place where they've never been, for no reason other than to hear themselves talk. I can already smell the flood of negative votes on this post already. Oh well, the only other logical post in this thread was voted down, too.
Funny how anyone with different thoughts or ideas gets voted down no matter how good a point they make; especially coming from a bunch folks who claim they believe in how to "Think Different".
That's ridiculous. Get real. No application has the right to my data without my permission. Applications already violate our privacy more than I would like (in my opinion, apps should only be permitted to read cookies that they create, not the cookes from other apps). But taking my address book data or photos is beyond anything reasonable. Congress is only involved because Apple/Google were too stupid to recognize this flaw themselves. While bugs happen, I suspect this is more about everyone working so fast, there's no time to fully evaluate whether these kinds of flaws exist, although I think this particular violation is so outrageous, I never would have thought that any app would even attempt it, which is probably why whatever tools Apple uses to test apps probably didn't test for it.
Congress will never bother passing any laws on this, but it won't be necessary anyway because I believe Apple/Google will rectify this quite soon. Having said that, I certainly wouldn't mind if there was legislation in this area, but the downside of legislation is that it can't address technology changes in the future. But you know the EU is going to address this - they're much more paranoid about privacy than the U.S. is.
Thank you.
