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It doesn't apply to all companies. Apple, for example, has very strong incentives to maintain your privacy, to the point that they have made it a selling point
by addicted 9y ago
It doesn't apply to all companies.
Apple, for example, has very strong incentives to maintain your privacy, to the point that they have made it a selling point for their devices and are also suffering in the realms of machine learning because they are not leveraging your data the way Google or FB would.
- ucaetano 9y ago> has very strong incentives to maintain your privacy > their incentives aren't really aligned with yours No, they have a very strong incentive to appear to maintain your privacy. And that's only temporary. Don't fall for any company saying that they're doing something in the user's interests. They aren't. Companies exist to make profits, if for a brief period of time that means helping users in some way, it's only a coincidence, and you're being fooled by it. Take a look at China, Apple didn't even blink before deciding to hand over all data to the Chinese government. I trust companies, because I know exactly what matters for them: profits. I trust them to follow profits and act on their best interest.
- atc 9y agoBut if profit is the incentive and privacy is proven to increase profit then the two go hand in hand.