Industry representatives say it is unnecessary to show consumers their marketing data because, they say, reputable companies limit that data's use to innocuous purposes; they also contend that such consumer services would be too technically challenging and expensive to develop.
In typically genealogical fashion, Foucault's analysis shows how techniques and institutions, developed for different and often quite innocuous purposes, converged to create the modern system of disciplinary power.
Some believed that Spotify's interest in accessing user data would be used for fairly innocuous purposes – for example, like being able to personalize playlist images with your own photos, or scanning your address book so you could find new friends on the service.
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This encompasses, he said, "the ability to read how surveillance is mobilized for purposes that seem innocuous, and to see how the unchecked proliferation of surveillance can lead to abuse".
Innocuous on the surface, its long-term purpose is to institutionalize Republican economic policy into the very fabric of budgetary analysis.
Facebook Live launched to all users almost exactly one year ago and while the majority of videos are innocuous, the feature has broadcast, both accidentally and on purpose, heinous acts of violence.
Social engineering techniques include phishing (attackers send seemingly innocuous e-mails to targeted users, inviting them to divulge protected information for apparently legitimate purposes) and baiting (malware-infected software is left in a public place in the hope that a target user will find and install it, thus compromising the entire computer system).
For a bill that has sparked lots of protests (and counter-protests) at the legislature, the actual content and purpose of Bill 6 the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act—seems to be pretty innocuous.
