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>Americans on the whole seem quite nonchalant about their privacy I disagree, and let me elaborate. The CA scandal started two different conversations, which p
by dirtybird04 7y ago
>Americans on the whole seem quite nonchalant about their privacy
I disagree, and let me elaborate. The CA scandal started two different conversations, which people get mixed up a lot.
The primary one was about how shit Facebook's privacy settings are, and how all your data has been easily available for a few bucks. This stirred up a LOT of privacy concerns in the US, causing a whole bunch of people to quit Facebook. Zuckerberg was on the cover of magazines, for all the wrong reason. That conversation is still going on.
The secondary conversation was ok now that we know the data was out there, how effective was it? Did it help swing the election? This documentary wants you to convince that it is true, that CA was the reason why Trump got elected. And as the article and Michael Lewis' podcast lays out, that's just not the case.
tldr: We're talking about two different things. Talking about secondary concerns does not negate the primary ones.
- antod 7y agoYeah fair point. I suppose for non Americans like myself, we would naturally put far less weight on the secondary discussion. Also I hadn't watched the documentary in question, so wasn't referring to its arguments directly. I do have some vague hopes that California's upcoming privacy regulations (the ones that from the outside look a little GDPR like) will prod the tech giants enough to take this shit seriously. And I hope you're right about what this has stirred up in the US. I'm hoping that my view (ie the apparent nonchalance) from the outside is inaccurate. For the rest of the world, we rely on American sentiment to influence these companies.