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I feel like this issue, and others like it, cannot be thrown in people's faces enough. People need to get angry to affect change. If we want our industry to ta
by mfoy_ 8y ago
I feel like this issue, and others like it, cannot be thrown in people's faces enough. People need to get angry to affect change.
If we want our industry to take privacy seriously, we need people to take a principled stand. Making them aware of, and outraged over, flagrant violations of your privacy, and trust, is the easiest way to do that.
- TAForObvReasons 8y agoThe battle is lost. People by and large have decided that it is worth sacrificing most of their privacy to use "free" services like Facebook and google. The only relief at this point is regulatory.
- icebraining 8y agoAwareness is not just useful to convince people to act individually, it's also useful if you want to pass that legislation.
- aeorgnoieang 8y agoWhy bother protecting something that most people, as you yourself claim, don't actually value that highly?
- tome 8y agoBecause it's actually valuable.
- ksk 8y agoWhat does that mean? People don't value it, ergo, not valuable.
- walterstucco 8y agoYour privacy is my privacy We talk at the phone, we chat, we take pictures together If you don't mind about your privacy you're probably hurting someone else's
- dllthomas 8y agoYeah, and just because many people are happy to trade it away doesn't mean everyone is. (And of course many don't realize just how much they're trading away...)
- ksk 8y ago> The only relief at this point is regulatory. But why would the government intervene in a private decision that citizens have made?
- Shivetya 8y agoPrivacy? What privacy? It most jurisdictions in this country I can search property records, obtain the names of those owning if not in residence, property values, when purchased and so on. Then I can cross reference other government databases and eventually onto private setups like the one in the article. people and washington are bemoaning what happens at Google, Facebook, and the like, yet totally ignoring all the information readily available to the public for anyone to take from government itself. Example, if you know a street address or owner's name in Cobb County Georgia will allow you to search. The amount of information available there is and the type is far more dangerous than what was discovered via a facebook quiz.
- walterstucco 8y agoThose are public records Of course they're public