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Ultimately, I think there are far too many actors involved to rely on the ethics of third parties to protect your privacy. If Saudi Arabia wanted to track down
by microcolonel 8y ago
Ultimately, I think there are far too many actors involved to rely on the ethics of third parties to protect your privacy. If Saudi Arabia wanted to track down gays and apostates by mining the same data you did, they could do it themselves.
The first line of defense against this is, and always will be, not publishing so much information about yourself. They can not mine what you do not provide.
We can argue all day about the ethics of the conduct of companies and states looking at these data, but it's a non-issue if the data simply don't exist.
- Viliam1234 8y agoEven if you publish nothing about yourself, information will leak. Some of your friends will post things about you... for example they have a photo together with you, will upload it to a social network, enter your name, provide a date and place for the photo... with enough photos with your name, the social network can make a guess about which other unnamed photos contain the same person... and gradually a profile on you is being built. And it will only get worse, as more data will be shared by other people. Soon the streets may be full of people using cameras all day long, just because it allows them to make cooler diaries or blogs, and then the data companies will get universal surveillance. The only way to keep privacy will be to have your face covered in public (but hey, that will be made illegal, because terrorism or something), or avoid public places completely.