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To be fair, recent tech has eroded that a lot. People are still not happy about all of it, but the resistance has been dropping - usage of Facebook and Google p

To be fair, recent tech has eroded that a lot. People are still not happy about all of it, but the resistance has been dropping - usage of Facebook and Google products is now pretty widespread and people (especially young ones) seem to be far more lenient in that regard.

pasabagi 5y ago
On the other hand, the proliferation of hacking and fraud could drive a swing to the opposite direction. It's got to the point where being hacked, blackmailed, or being the target of fraud is a regular occurrence, and a lot of that is driven by hackers having easy access to private data which lends plausibility to emails or text messages. When you get to the point where judges and lawmakers have, more likely than not, personal experience of threatening emails containing private information, there's a lot of incentive to reduce the amount of data collection - and correspondingly, a lot of popular support for the idea.
ATsch 5y ago
I think this is less due to a genuine change of heart and more because the lack of enforcement by the government in regards to big tech has left people without much choice.
- Sebb767 5y ago
  You always have a choice. But you can't deny that the services offered by these companies are really good and, not to mention, completely free. It's easy to give up long term drawbacks for short term benefits.
hef19898 5y ago
Unfortunately true. The steady, slow and, in everyday live, invisible erosion of privacy is what might ultimately bring an end to online privacy. Especially once certain politicians see the benefit of outsourcing surveillance to third parties. Despite privacy being generally held up a lot in Europe, there are definitely a lot of people in power all over the place that would love to have access to the kind of data ad-companies have. That courts are ruling against this, in whatever way, is still a good sign.

pasabagi 5y ago

On the other hand, the proliferation of hacking and fraud could drive a swing to the opposite direction. It's got to the point where being hacked, blackmailed, or being the target of fraud is a regular occurrence, and a lot of that is driven by hackers having easy access to private data which lends plausibility to emails or text messages. When you get to the point where judges and lawmakers have, more likely than not, personal experience of threatening emails containing private information, there's a lot of incentive to reduce the amount of data collection - and correspondingly, a lot of popular support for the idea.

ATsch 5y ago

I think this is less due to a genuine change of heart and more because the lack of enforcement by the government in regards to big tech has left people without much choice.

Sebb767 5y ago
You always have a choice. But you can't deny that the services offered by these companies are really good and, not to mention, completely free. It's easy to give up long term drawbacks for short term benefits.

hef19898 5y ago

Unfortunately true. The steady, slow and, in everyday live, invisible erosion of privacy is what might ultimately bring an end to online privacy. Especially once certain politicians see the benefit of outsourcing surveillance to third parties. Despite privacy being generally held up a lot in Europe, there are definitely a lot of people in power all over the place that would love to have access to the kind of data ad-companies have. That courts are ruling against this, in whatever way, is still a good sign.