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I suspect that we won't agree on global and complex issues like GA or surveillance (metadata = surveillance after all, see (1)). But I want to discuss more spec
by Yizahi 7y ago
I suspect that we won't agree on global and complex issues like GA or surveillance (metadata = surveillance after all, see (1)). But I want to discuss more specific issue - "monist model". I disagree that defining what people buy is approximately what people want. Yes, it is in some narrow scope, but that is not all. I can't buy what I want if it doesn't exist, right? And is I buy picking from two set choices while I want some thing different doesn't mean that I wanted what I bought. Example - I have Android phone, but I don't want it specifically, I don't want a gadget filled with permanently enabled Google surveillance. But the alternative is only one - Apple, slightly less but still about the same. The only reason I'm buying them is because I want convenience more than privacy and I'm only human after all.
People don't know about GA, 99.9% don't know. But they do know about their home address or credit card number or SSN or photos. They just don't have proper information to connect all these links.
(1): https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/metadata_survei.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/metadata_surv...
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoJust a minor clarification. When I was speaking of customers, I was speaking in aggregate. I'm not making a claim that all individual customers are having their expressions adequately expressed by their purchasing decisions.