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A few years ago there was an IAMA on Reddit with an MS employee and he blatantly said that MS was funding anti-privacy propaganda so that their user base will b
by lumberjack 11y ago
A few years ago there was an IAMA on Reddit with an MS employee and he blatantly said that MS was funding anti-privacy propaganda so that their user base will be more complacent with their increasing privacy violations. I think this was when the cloud was still a new buzz word and Microsoft was coming out with Office 365 and in this case he justified it by saying that all these new bright technologies of the future depended on the users willingly giving away their privacy and so MS and Google were funding these marketing campaigns to prepare users for it.
So even if you look at it from a purely tech perspective, it is not in these tech giant's interest to safe guard your privacy nor do they want you to think that your privacy should be safe guarded.
And of course everybody is always drooling to data mine these user bases and who knows, sell the data to insurance companies maybe. I'm sure they will find some loophole to allow this.
- cryoshon 11y agoThen there's the "PRIVACY IS DEAD" billboards which are plastered onto city busses in NYC. No business or advertisement mentioned, just "PRIVACY IS DEAD". Almost like it was trying to wriggle into the subliminal. I think it's been fairly obvious for the past few years that privacy is being suppressed by malicious groups who have plans for user data. There's been really no resistance, except from niche groups who are encrypting everything-- but if it's only niche, it doesn't matter.
- webXL 11y agoGot any links? Google image search of "PRIVACY IS DEAD" + bus didn't turn up anything. Then I dropped the quotes and replaced dead with NSA, and got a bunch of bis pics with THANK YOU EDWARD SNOWDEN, so I don't think Google is part of this conspiracy.
- walterbell 11y agoThey are ads for Mr. Robot: https://www.google.com/search?q=privacy+is+a+myth+mr+robot&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=privacy+is+a+myth+mr+robot&t...