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I’m starting to think it can only be fixed with legislation. At it stands every single incentive for businesses points toward maximizing surveillance. Product
by api 5y ago
I’m starting to think it can only be fixed with legislation.
At it stands every single incentive for businesses points toward maximizing surveillance. Product design, marketing, advertising, direct monetization of data, validating business models to investors, everything is helped by more data. The push for data is relentless and the appetite is endless.
Consumers largely don’t understand or don’t care. They talk shit about it but they don’t change their buying decisions.
- techbio 5y agoSo far, no legislation fix. Other alternatives?
- api 5y agoI’m pessimistic about tech fixes, not because it can’t be done but because there is zero incentive. Like I said all the money and all the incentive is toward invading privacy. Nobody is going to seriously try unless people are willing to pay for it in significant numbers. I don’t see that. Most people just don’t care or don’t understand. There is also quite a bit of surface area to defend if you are trying to make privacy guarding OSes or browsers. Look at how hard it is to eliminate browser fingerprinting. There are so many ways to infer unique information.