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This is ridiculous * WeChat => You’re an open book. * WeChat & Telegram => You’re off the grid.
by david_allison 3y ago
This is ridiculous
* WeChat => You’re an open book.
* WeChat & Telegram => You’re off the grid.
- subjectsigma 3y agoThis is really the crux of it - a privacy quiz is not inherently a bad idea I think. It’s a pretty low effort way to educate laymen. A privacy quiz which gives nonsensical, misleading, and incomplete results is obviously not a good thing.
- autoexec 3y agoI think the problem with a privacy quiz is that as soon you answer that you own a cell phone your privacy is forfeit. We can't function into today's society without screwing ourselves over. Telling people that they can be "off the grid" while owning a android device is a massive lie, and telling people that their participation in society has made them extremely vulnerable may be accurate, but it's also going cause people to feel defeated. There's no winning. It's best just to name and shame companies collecting far more data than they need (like cars with microphones that listen in on your conversations/lovemaking, or roku devices that upload multiple screenshots per second of whatever is being displayed), because that at least educates consumers of the risks. Consumers can't complain and demand changes if they don't even know about the abuses that are happening and nobody selling consumers these devices is going to say anything.