Thread · 3 tweets · 21 May 2021

What you describe is *exactly* why it's gamed by design. Imagine going to a bookshop and you need to sign a waiver so the owner can remember what books you told him you liked before he can recommend one. Then the coffee shop needs a waiver to know which coffee you take every day.

Then the grocer needs a waiver to pull up the order you'd asked for. Eventually the supermarket asks for a waiver to share your biometrics with a bunch of chains, it looks a little different but you're going to sign it anyway — everyone needs a waiver, the law said so.

The idea that making people choose more is better for their autonomy is the single biggest boon and subsidy to the data-industrial complex.