What's wrong with data collection and tracking? Privacy seems extremely overrated here on HN. Am I missing something?
Why would anyone take such efforts to avoid using Google products? That doesn't seem very rational...
Why would anyone take such efforts to avoid using Google products? That doesn't seem very rational...
I see people seeking privacy as I see technophobes. I'm sure they're genuinely concerned, but I can't help but think they're mistaken. I think it's important to change their minds, as they're otherwise making the transition to a post-privacy world very difficult.
I've asked this question many times before, and nobody managed to explain how privacy would survive through the next 100 years of technological progress. That alone makes me think privacy is not a long-term solution.
Only a handful of people have clarified their position in defense of privacy as temporary and pragmatic (as opposed to ideal). They think that privacy is bad, but they prefer it to the alternative given today's context. I can appreciate this position, and I find it a lot more reasonable than the usual "privacy is good" most people seem to blindly accept.
Ultimately, I'd like to discuss strategies to make the transition to a post-privacy world smoother. This whole pro-privacy sentiment makes it very difficult.
In either case, the subject of a decent article might be: setting up automated exports from service features like Takeout, to mitigate the risk of personal service account closures and disruptions.
Plenty wrong. It seems you're not new here so I'm amazed you asked that question. Have you been living under a rock in 2013?
Just to start, it creates a big power imbalance between consumer and corporations [1] and due to the tightly knit relationship between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley it's also a civil liberties problem [2]. It also screws with your ideology by turning your internet usage into an echo chamber.
And here's some books:
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10384432
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/452645
https://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/5/digital_disconnect_rob...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16006587-spying-on-democ...
[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2309703
No, it's great, actually! We enjoy it a lot here.
> Is it avoidable?
Yes, yes it is.
> Is it suddenly OK if you try to avoid the imbalance but swap one entity for another (dependent on companies versus dependent on your own time/ability to audit code)?
It's never 'suddenly' OK. More like 'eventually' OK, as you know, you need to take the time to audit code, etc..