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Uhhh, you can stop using said services and software that abuse privacy, e.g., Facebook, Google, Twitter, TicToc, etc.
by jtdev 5y ago
Uhhh, you can stop using said services and software that abuse privacy, e.g., Facebook, Google, Twitter, TicToc, etc.
- anm89 5y agoThat doesn't end the data economy. It sort of ends part of your personal interaction with the data economy.
- SahAssar 5y agoIf enough people end their own interaction with it it ceases to exist, right? If nobody gave their data to services that sell it on or use it for profit then there is no data economy.
- fsagx 5y agoA person would have to live a Kaczynski-like lifestyle to not interact with services that aggregate and sell data. No credit card, no cellphone, no internet. Cash only.
- SahAssar 5y agoThe point is that for each person that ends their interaction with these companies the less data they have on everyone. If only one tenth of my friends use facebook they will have less data on me than if 9 tenths do. Convincing even one person to choose more privacy friendly choices helps a little.
- anigbrowl 5y ago'sort of' doing a great deal of work here.
- lsb 5y agoYou can't opt out of cities' car culture by not driving: the rest of the city is all there all the time. You can't opt out of a data economy by your individual isolated action: the rest of the economy is vacuuming up similar people's data all the time.
- metalliqaz 5y agofacebook has a profile for you even if you don't have a facebook account
- egypturnash 5y agoHere's another industry that relies on aggregating your data: Credit reports. Go ahead. Figure out how to opt out of Experian, Transunion, or Equifax collecting everything they can about you, including pretty much every piece of data needed for identity theft, possibly confusing it with someone with a similar name, and then putting it in a badly-secured database. No, really, if you can figure it out I'd love to know. Every now and then I am reminded they exist and that they are silently creating these vast troves of data without anyone's consent, and all I can do is hope that if my identity information is included in a data breach, I am both small enough and lucky enough to not be impacted.
- gspq 5y agoAnd they have an API to these data. Selling your data to data vendors. And now this: https://www.melissa.com/industries/healthcare https://www.melissa.com/industries/healthcare Health records used for AI machine learning training . Your health data are in the vendor database . What possibly could go wrong?
- tejtm 5y agoTrue, but there is no practical way to get through our work days without them using us anyway.
- Nicksil 5y agoBut that doesn't stop their abuse. Think about all the other websites out there using Google Analytics, FaceBook "Like" buttons, Twitter excerpts, etc. You're ever getting away.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoIts heartbreaking that on HN, the one place that should be informed about this, you still see the ignorant commend "well you don't have to use facebook" Even if you are homeless and living under a bridge, facebook will have photos of you, uploaded by others, they will know who you are and whwre you like will sell some data relating to you to someone
- Jorengarenar 5y agoIn theory. I've deleted my Facebook account. Few years later needed to create new one and used same e-mail address. Guess what welcomed me! My old account! Heck, even posts I had deleted and whole journal (or however its called) related to them, yes it was back again, waiting to be clicked "unhide".