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all I hear from my non-tech friends is "Oh yeah, the government and companies have 'my data' nothin I can do" they basically just assume they're living in a to
by VRay 6y ago
all I hear from my non-tech friends is "Oh yeah, the government and companies have 'my data' nothin I can do"
they basically just assume they're living in a totalitarian society already and don't even think having any semblance of privacy is possible (or understand how easy it is for sinister, small-time third parties to spy on them via publicly-purchasable advertising data..)
- kiwidrew 6y agoThe users have already been domesticated [1]. It feels like we have now come full circle back to the 80s to once again grapple with the inherent injustices of proprietary software. Except this time, the proprietary wolves have clothed themselves with "open source" software to prevent us from recognizing them. [1] https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users.html https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication...