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I believe it’s more that people don’t see the potential threat and harm into providing sensible data to commercial entities. People who have been for instance
by aucisson_masque 2y ago
I believe it’s more that people don’t see the potential threat and harm into providing sensible data to commercial entities.
People who have been for instance wrongly jailed because Google gave their location history to law enforcement and they happened to be near a crime scene, these people they understand the value of privacy.
- bonoboTP 2y agoPeople who were struck by lightning know not to go out of the house in rain. People who got hit by a falling brick on the sidewalk know to wear a hard hat when out and about. These horror stories are so rare that the vast majority of people has never personally met anyone who personally knew anyone who had it happen. So it's all entirely theoretical and speculative for people who are busy and have social life goals. It's rightfully seen in similar light as the pepper hobby or extreme zero waste green philosophy. Worrying about it is basically a hobby, an identity, a community, an esthetic. Most people have some other hobby and identity and don't need this one.
- aucisson_masque 2y agoIt's not so much a hoby in countries where being gay for instance gets you into jail... Or in countries where people criticizing the government policy disappear. Yet it's a reality for Billions of people in Russia, china, India until not so long ago. I mean, the world isn't just limited to the west where, at worst, you will get personalized advertisement and in very rare occasion something worst.
- bonoboTP 2y agoI replied specifically to the Google account thing. I don't think political dissidents need much convincing in these matters.
- aucisson_masque 2y agoHow wide do you think the spectrum is between political dissident and average Joe ? How would for instance, Women in the USA having to remove period tracking app because they are afraid it could be used by the government against them, fit in your thought ? It’s neither black or white, privacy nuthead or political activist. There is a wide spectrum.
- bonoboTP 2y agoI've never heard of that story (I'm also not American). If it's something that has impacted someone they know, they don't need convincing. I'm talking about the theoretical vague speculative stuff. People will care about privacy if it impacts real life events, not just some news piece about someone somewhere once, one customer from a hundred million but real people in their real lives. If that happens, then they care. If that does not happen, then they don't care about Amazon processing their voice recordings in the cloud or chat control scanning their DMs.