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"Jeff Bezos Protests Privacy Invasion" seems a bit of a stretch, since I can't find him doing so anywhere on Medium or even in the linked article. He seems to b
by faitswulff 8y ago
"Jeff Bezos Protests Privacy Invasion" seems a bit of a stretch, since I can't find him doing so anywhere on Medium or even in the linked article. He seems to be merely dealing with the fallout without commenting on the privacy issues.
- clouddrover 8y agoHe says he doesn't want his personal texts and photos published. He says he has retained an investigator to find out how these texts and photos were acquired in the first place. That looks and sounds like a protest of the privacy invasion to me.
- zepto 8y agoIn the context of blackmail
- clouddrover 8y agoOf course. When else do privacy issues matter most?
- zepto 8y agoAll kinds of other ways - subtle manipulation, advertising, evaluation by power structures etc.
- clouddrover 8y agoI didn't say the other problems with a lack of privacy don't matter. I asked when else does a lack of privacy matter most. It matters most when you receive a direct and immediate threat as a consequence of your lack of privacy. Jeff Bezos is finding out the hard way what a lack of privacy means. If he had had actual privacy he wouldn't be in this position in the first place.
- zepto 8y agoI think the other problems matter vastly more. They are happening to all of us all the time, and are deeply corrosive to society. Blackmail is comparatively rare, and may not actually be as harmful even to the individual who is the target. Just because they are pervasive and so we learn to live with them, we should not underestimate how severely damaging they are.
- faitswulff 8y agoProtesting an instance of privacy invasion doesn't equate to commenting on the mechanism of invasion, itself. I would have been much more interested in the story if he had had a public change of heart about surveillance states, but alas - all he said was that he was going to stand up against it.