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I agree that technology /enables/ behaviours, but it's people who use/abuse it and the society who needs to instate the controls. If we attack this purely from
by kardos 11y ago
I agree that technology /enables/ behaviours, but it's people who use/abuse it and the society who needs to instate the controls.
If we attack this purely from a technological angle and manage to ramp up to ubiquitous E2E encryption, society can ban encryption: jailtime for possession of data that the government can't read. Is that a technology problem or a social problem?
> Most people won't give up their Facebook or e-mail, or start learning how to do PGP because some vague notion of "privacy".
This is a defeatist attitude. There's always going to be people who don't care. What's the voter turnout rate in your country? I'm sure you can find some starving people who will pick food over privacy, or some junkies who'll pick drugs. Those people are not part of the privacy conversation because they have other priorities.
Anyhow: the goal is not to nag everybody into locking up all their personal information. The goal is (or should be) to build a society where people have control over the dissemination of their personal details/communication, rather than "everything is collected by powerful entities, deal with it".