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> This sort of reality only becomes true if we all use cryptographic measures all the time perhaps. Not necessarily, I can imagine a post-privacy scenario were
by freeflight 5y ago
> This sort of reality only becomes true if we all use cryptographic measures all the time perhaps.
Not necessarily, I can imagine a post-privacy scenario were absolute transparency turns private information commercially worthless by making it a good readily and freely accessible to everybody.
I admit it would be a rather radical paradigm change and difficult to actually implement but actually fits perfectly fine with the mindset of "information should be free".
Imho our current problem is not all the information that's collected, it's how said information is monopolized to the purely commercial benefits of only a select few.
- antihero 5y agoI guess it's about personal privacy vs private privacy.
- Dracophoenix 5y ago"[All] information should be free" is Zuckerberg's view in its entirety. But even if privacy was no longer an important value how that information is collected is still going to be important distinguishing factor. Information is not and cannot be monopolized. Facebook does not have special powers to extract information directly from individuals. Facebook's "monopoly", if that's what you want to call it, is in employing the best statisticians and data scientists to draw abstractions and correlations to pack and sell to advertisers. It's not about the data taken, but the metadata that's created and the secondary and tertiary observations about your life that can worked back from what you do on the website or any website with a Facebook Pixel.