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This is the kind of privacy that I (along with a large majority of unsophisticated tech users) care about most. I don't care if machines access my data and serv
by miki123211 3y ago
This is the kind of privacy that I (along with a large majority of unsophisticated tech users) care about most. I don't care if machines access my data and serve me better ads, I do care whether customer data can easily be viewed by a HR person / angry ex / private investigator / controlling ultra-religious parents / crooked cop of a third-world-country with a bullshit "this person wants to commit suicide" excuse.
I have actually talked with non-tech-savvy people about this, most of them have heard of tech companies tracking their users, and most of them genuinely believe that there are tech company employees out there going through their private lives. This is why I really dislike the use of the word "tracking" in a tech privacy context.
- croes 3y agoWhere is the difference? A machine will read your data and will set a flag in your HR file. No human read your data but you still face consequences
- flagrant_taco 3y agoI've heard plenty of non-technical users complain about ads that they think we're shown based on tracking, most often the complaint is concerns of the use of an idle phone's mic. I've also talked with non-tech people about how the tracking and data mining world actually works, I've never had someone say "so what?". It may simply be that non-tech people aren't as aware of what the tracking does based on ignorance of the problem, not a genuine acceptance of the practice itself.
- tpxl 3y ago> most of them genuinely believe that there are tech company employees out there going through their private lives. Are you implying this is an incorrect belief? There are reports of employees stalking their former partners at data collection companies.