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If your privacy is important to you, then you would go to the baker that does not sell your private information and charges money for bread. If there are enoug
by dennisgorelik 8y ago
If your privacy is important to you, then you would go to the baker that does not sell your private information and charges money for bread.
If there are enough people who are ready to pay for their bread and prevent selling out their private information -- then it would allow such privacy respecting bakeries to exist.
- Dylan16807 8y agoBecause auditing is garbage and there's no way to know who isn't collecting this information.
- dennisgorelik 8y agoCollecting information is not really a concern for the vast majority of users. But some users start to worry when that information is getting sold to third-party providers. Information sales are easier to audit.
- Dylan16807 8y agoCollected information almost always turns into transferred information at some point. Knowing they don't sell anything now doesn't help you in five years when the company has a change of heart or a change of ownership.
- ohazi 8y agoI don't think it's true that the vast majority of users aren't concerned. The vast majority of users don't understand what is happening, and the few that are aware have decided that it's not worth the fuss, because they have correctly internalized that they basically have no real choice in the matter. This sort of data collection is almost never optional, and when it is, the settings are deliberately hidden and obfuscated behind the worst kind of dark patterns. If properly informed about what data is collected, and given a real choice about opting out, that doesn't reset every two seconds or hobble the service (what gdpr theoretically requires), I think the majority of users would be concerned and would opt out of as much as possible.
- chrischen 8y agoThat’a fine if you know that’s what this free baker is doing.
- ohazi 8y agoIn this hypothetical scenario, there are no bakers who charge money for bread, and the information broker bakers refuse to take your money in lieu of putting your information in the bag with the others. Or worse, sometimes they do take your money, but it's impossible to verify whether or not they kept your information out, until the next data leak, when you discover that they didn't.
- heavenlyblue 8y agoNah - that’s why monopolies are bad for the society: in any scenario where the company managed to become a monopoly, they’ve by that time accumulated so many resources that they later on use in order to stiffle the competition. Free markets don’t exist.