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Google has more dirt on me (primarily due to email) than any one other company/individual, but I find it really hard to care. While I'm sure certain bits of it
by daeken 16y ago
Google has more dirt on me (primarily due to email) than any one other company/individual, but I find it really hard to care. While I'm sure certain bits of it could be used against me, I just can't muster the energy to be bothered by it. They give me enough value that I just don't care.
- jschuur 16y agoIt's not that I don't care... I just don't see the scenario were Google would care about my dirt specifically or do anything with it like blackmail me (not that there's really much worth blackmailing me with there). It would be very hard for them to exploit personally identifying info on a large scale without it being noticed and causing a shit storm. And I don't call targeted ads 'exploiting' my info. That's a service.
- sharednothing 16y agoAll this contributes to a collective fear of exercising Free Speech when it becomes necessary. You don't give an F now about the fact that company x keeps tabs on you using tech y. Typically this is expressed as "I'm not doing anything illegal so I don't care". Outside of US and other civilized realms, the notion of "Freedom of Association" and "Innocent until proven guilty" are perhaps foreign concepts. But to hear this non-sense -- "I'm not doing anything illegal" -- as a justification for their stupid acceptance of systemic surveillance is just unacceptable. These companies are fundamentally enablers of tyrannies.