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The key question is always a painfully simple one: how much are people willing to pay as a privacy-first premium? The answers to this determine everything. Tre
by Kalium 4y ago
The key question is always a painfully simple one: how much are people willing to pay as a privacy-first premium?
The answers to this determine everything. Treating privacy-first as the moral and ethical default we should expect everyone to start from is a wonderful idea, rooted in compassion, kindness, and a foundational respect for human rights. It has also been an abject failure to date.
We should not expect the future to be different unless we are willing to be realistic about the economics at work. Otherwise the market gap will remain in the realm of the wonderfully hypothetical forever.
- autoexec 4y ago> The key question is always a painfully simple one: how much are people willing to pay as a privacy-first premium? the fact is that no amount of money a customer can pay will ever be worth more than taking that customer's money and then also selling every scrap of data that your product can get its hands on on top of it. We need to stop accepting "But I can make more money by screwing you" as a valid excuse for how things are. It's true, but still not okay. If the economics are always going to favor exploiting people, than I guess if we don't want to be exploited we need some very powerful regulations and all of the oversight and enforcement that requires in place to change that situation. I'd prefer that to blind faith and optimism. Until then, there are a number of things we should be insisting on in products as consumers to help protect ourselves. "works offline" is a really good one in a lot of situations.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoThis is why the solution involved legislation and regulation. If it prices the low end out of the market, so be it.