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I'd rather have the digital advertising ecosystem have my info and the NSA have none. I can say no to ads through self discipline. They can't force me to give

I'd rather have the digital advertising ecosystem have my info and the NSA have none. I can say no to ads through self discipline. They can't force me to give them money. The NSA can come with guns to lock me up because the current political leaders disagree with my opinions.

Nextgrid 4y ago
It would be very hard to make sure the NSA doesn't have your info if thousands of other unscrupulous players have it and trade it. One danger of this cancer having infected everything is that back in the day, if the NSA wanted to track people, they'd need to either exploit an existing feature that collected data (which there weren't many, and no guarantee people used them) or convince developers to include backdoors which had its own risks. Any large-scale spying required them to build & maintain infrastructure. Nowadays, the cancer that is advertising provides a business reason as to why everything should be collecting data, so now the NSA effectively got to outsource their spying (without even any coercion!) and can just ask for the results.