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The Death of Privacy
- fsflover 6y agoCompanies which respect your privacy and freedom: https://puri.sm/products https://puri.sm/products https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/ https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/ https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide https://ryf.fsf.org https://ryf.fsf.org
- ldx1024 6y agoThis article and the Atlantic article about one or two spaces after a period were both posted 5 hours ago. That article has 50 comments, this one a single comment. Interesting.
- fsflover 6y agoI guess it's just well known for the HN audience, and has been discussed many times already.
- type0 6y ago> All of these scenarios are conceivable in what we call real life. No they're not, the common user considers the data that they're giving away to be ephemeral, that it has no cost. The reality is that it never disappears and almost always brings the detrimental costs for the future of society and democracy. And still, no one cares, because of the fundamental misunderstanding what it's really about. Cory delivers a good talk on this: "What the cyberoptimists got wrong - and what to do about it" https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11582-cory_doctorow_fireside_chat https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11582-cory_doctorow_fireside_chat Just ask yourself "Can you compete with Facebook?" "Why not?" "Explain how it's not a monopoly" btw the regulations won't fix it
- type0 6y ago>“surveillance capitalism”, which she defined as: “a new economic order that claims human experience as the raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction and sales”. The page of newstatesman.com embraces "this idea", hurray.