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I don't disagree with any of what you've said. I just think that many people are ignorant of that being the case with Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc because they

I don't disagree with any of what you've said. I just think that many people are ignorant of that being the case with Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc because they assume 'Well Technology must have solved that'. Then again, compared to the average bear, maybe I'm unusually circumspect when it comes to all of those things.

ngneer 6y ago
Technology alone cannot solve the use of technology to promote interests of parties in a zero sum game.
- kortilla 6y ago
  The promise of homomorphic encryption is to allow cloud computing without giving your data away.
  - pixl97 6y ago
    Without giving what data away, exactly? If for example I'm fully on amazon AWS for everything, DNS/DB/Web then no matter how encrypted your data is Amazon still has a very good idea of the effectiveness of your campaign. You can't hide the number of DNS queries. You can't hide the number of TCP SYNs. Hell, there is just a huge amount of things that encryption does not cover up, especially involving time for particular transactions to occur.
    - kortilla 6y ago
      Don’t be obtuse. Observing some encrypted traffic going in and out gives away some info, but it’s nothing like the email addresses, addresses, names, and order history of all of your customers. Amazon, if they wanted, could read stats from Netflix’s database about which movies drive the most engagement and use that to determine what to license for Prime video. It’s the difference between root on the server and capturing encrypted packets on a network.