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With their revealed preferences, people have signaled that they want convenience more than privacy. Really, surveillance barely even seems necessary any more.
by Banthum 9y ago
With their revealed preferences, people have signaled that they want convenience more than privacy.
Really, surveillance barely even seems necessary any more. People already voluntarily tell Facebook, Uber, Instagram, Amazon and their credit cards companies every detail of their lives. I'm not even sure we can reasonably stop that.
The issue to me isn't so much people gathering data, because it's obvious that will happen. Rather we need restrictions on how that data can be stored, shared, integrated across datasets, and mined.
- bo1024 9y agoI think it's more accurate to say, people have signaled that they understand the immediate benefits of convenience, but have trouble evaluating the harms of privacy loss. (At least, I know this is true for me.)
- digi_owl 9y agoCory Doctorow likened it to maintaining a diet. If see could see/feel the calories turning into fat instantly, it would be easier to avoid eating as much.
- sli 9y agoSomething that startles me is the number of Telegram users who get openly angry when Telegram pushes a security or privacy update instead of an update with random new features. It just blows my mind that there are people who actually exist -- a lot of them -- who want animated stickers that much more more than anything at all privacy or security related.