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Lots of comments here mention that the vast majority of people won't use PGP, Linux and other things to protect their privacy, because they don't care/are dumb/
by qweqwe14 3y ago
Lots of comments here mention that the vast majority of people won't use PGP, Linux and other things to protect their privacy, because they don't care/are dumb/have more important things to do/whatever.
The bottom line though is that people that are more tech savvy and more knowledgeable will always have better privacy no matter what, unless you literally enforce Linux and all that on everyone, which is just not gonna work.
And even if it does, you'll then have to ensure they actually use it properly without screwing things up and compromising their privacy, by which point you'd need every person to know a good amount about networks, security, operating systems etc, which is even harder.
The best course of action is making privacy tools easier to use, so that more people can use them. But without some massive change initiated by corporations or governments, it's infeasible that everyone suddenly gains privacy. YOU have to put the work in to protect yourself, not someone else. And most people don't care. And that's fine. Most people suck anyways!
It's easy enough to become aware of privacy issues in the modern world, don't pretend like people don't know about them. If people care about them, they will learn how to solve them for themselves, there's plenty of info. If they don't, there's literally nothing you can do.
- Condition1952 3y agoIt is actually a tragedy that privacy is so inconvenient and complicated
- geraldhh 3y agomoxie tried, but there are no trustworthy ends for the encryption. hence privacy is still mostly for criminals.
- dublinben 3y ago>Most people don't care. Most people aren't given the choice. When they are actually presented an equally simple decision between more privacy and less privacy, nearly everyone chooses privacy.[0] Making privacy just as easy as not-privacy is exactly what needs to happen, and that is likely to only happen through regulation. We can already see how hard companies work to avoid complying with GDPR and the cookie law. [0] https://www.flurry.com/blog/ios-14-5-opt-in-rate-att-restricted-app-tracking-transparency-worldwide-us-daily-latest-update/ https://www.flurry.com/blog/ios-14-5-opt-in-rate-att-restric...
- landemva 3y ago> Most people aren't given the choice. My informal observations at TSA gates indicate 99.9%+ of people opt-in to the voluntary full body scan privacy invasion. Some people are enthusiastically posing for the TSA voluntary facial recognition cameras. Vast majority of people act like they don't care about privacy.