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Because everything is fine. The big conceit from privacy advocates is they think people don't know their data is being collected and used, but the reality is,
by diminoten 8y ago
Because everything is fine. The big conceit from privacy advocates is they think people don't know their data is being collected and used, but the reality is, they do know. They just don't care.
Show me a concrete negative impact on my life as a result of the passive data collection perpetrated by Google, Facebook, et. al., and you might change my mind, depending on how negative it is.
I get a lot out of the products I pay for with my data. It feels like a bargain, honestly.
- sveme 8y agoIf a company uses the tracking data to personalize prizes of stuff that you are interested in, you suddenly might pay much more than you think without ever being aware of it.
- diminoten 8y agoI doubt that a) companies would do that in general and b) the few that do are charging low enough of a premium that they're still competitive.
- skummetmaelk 8y agoYou doubt that companies would do this? Amazon already does it. Airline companies use location heuristics.
- diminoten 8y ago> Amazon already does it. No they don't.
- hahahihi 8y agoAs we dont know what the future will bring ethnic clensing is a realistic cenario. It wont happen or it wont happen to me lacks optimism about how long the future lasts.
- diminoten 8y agoI'm willing to experience a higher quality of day-to-day life while not being prepared for an "ethnic cleansing", so it is not part of my threat model.
- blub 8y agoYou believe this is all about you, when in fact it's about our societies and vulnerable categories of people (mostly the poor, and various religious, political, ethnic, etc minorities). You're basically declaring at first they came for everybody else than me, but that's okay because I'm still okay! If the effects of pervasive surveillance are a negative to society it doesn't matter that you're benefitting - your "bargain" will have to cease existing.
- diminoten 8y agoMy "bargain" is my choice, and the choice of anyone who wants to make it, and no one gets to rip that away from us because they're afraid of some boogeyman who will never come. The real conceit comes from people who think the rest of us don't know what we're doing; we do, and we don't care because it doesn't matter. Those people have no special information, and they're not smarter than us. There is no boogeyman, there are no "dire consequences", and the people peddling that nonsense are tilting at windmills.
- blub 8y agoNo one will come to you and forbid you from using Google or Facebook. If everything goes right, government and society will instead pressure those companies to offer honest alternatives to their existing spying-based services and make it cristal clear how one pays. The masochist, careless and indifferent will likely still be able to use the services they know and love, but their lack of interest will no longer be paid for by everyone. Smoking was also pretty cool at one point...
- diminoten 8y ago"Spying-based services" is some truly disingenuous labeling.