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We can point to how data brokerage/mining/analysis is being used to undermine democracies, sway elections, manipulate consumers into purchases they wouldn't mak
by port11 11mo ago
We can point to how data brokerage/mining/analysis is being used to undermine democracies, sway elections, manipulate consumers into purchases they wouldn't make, change the pricing or even denial of coverage for insurance, and so on. These are all quite tangible, and all stem from people giving up their data too willingly. We all fuel the Shit Economy of ‘free with personalised ads’ which ultimately allows those with the data to hold power/influence over everyone else.
And to your last point, plenty of people were shocked Google Chrome incognito wasn't really a private experience, or don't know that what they type into an LLM prompt gets collected, etc. People do give these out in the first place.
- ranger_danger 11mo agoI understand what you're saying, but IMO for ordinary users that only care about things that they can easily see tangibly affecting them directly, I don't think this is enough to convince them of anything.
- port11 11mo agoPerhaps. But you can tell them they might lose their health insurance because of their online profile. In some countries that's quite scary.