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There's still a strong distinction. The security story for an individual is: "I want to avoid my bank details leaking to the dark web. I do not want my browsi
by eternityforest 4y ago
There's still a strong distinction.
The security story for an individual is:
"I want to avoid my bank details leaking to the dark web. I do not want my browsing history available to random people.
But I do not have anything in particular to hide from Google, so long as the legal situation remains roughly as it is, I won't be arrested for what I say, nor do I really care if some random employee listens to some very boring recordings in my bedroom.
I don't commit crimes anyone would bother prosecuting, I don't have any nudes to leak, at least not that anyone would believe in the deepfake era, I don't pirate or use bitcoin, I don't have controversial political opinions, and if that ever changes, I can just unplug the wiretap and install Tor and Signal.
I currently trust Google more than anything self hosted to defend me against script kiddies, who are the only people I really care about hiding from.
".
The privacy story is:
"I do not want random people knowing anything about me. I do not trust that they won't send a kill drone to my location tomorrow. I am personally uncomfortable with strangers being able to see in my house, even if they are 1000 miles away, paased a background check, and very unlikely to do anything with it.
I do not want my data fed to machine learning for any reason, I do not want adaptive prices and offers that know how much I'm willing to pay, and I'd rather not be exposed to algorithmic manipulation of my emotions at all, even if it's currently mostly pretty obvious.
".