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Women I knew started to care when I showed them articles about how google and meta knew their menstrual cycles, and reported on searches about abortions to law emfprcemt
Not until there is a massive data breach that leads to very serious and obvious real world consequences
Like the Equifax hack that nobody cares about anymore?
I still can’t believe that was just completely forgotten about by almost everyone
On a similar scale, but with consequences like zeroing out savings and maxing out credit cards of several dozens of millions of people or violence for political views/sexual preferences/etc on the same scale. Basically, something that will make a large number of people learn about the importance of privacy the hard way.
Until there’s a massive leak of credit card data from a single incident, nothing will change.
Never.
Just look at what happens on Reddit when Mastodon is brought up in the Threads/Twitter wars.
“Ohhhh it’s too haaaaard to use. What does it matter about a little privacy loss anyway?”
People literally don’t care about their privacy. Anything that is raised regarding tracking is classified as being paranoid and you become a weirdo.
Consumerist pigs don’t care about literally anything past their own consumption and comforts.
possibly never going to happen
People never read, just click the accept button.
Everyone knows it, it was even on S06E01 of Black Mirror.
The last two for fuck sake; after that list what the hell is, or how does Fuckerburg, define ‘sensitive data’?
‘People’ won’t react to this until they are hit with a real and tangible consequence:
‘sorry, based on the heath data you gave to Meta we’re doubling your insurance premiums’
Unless there’s a massive data breach which affects them personally - though not sure how that would be.
The only way to go may be forcing the mega-terch companies to respect user rights, which you’d think would be a joke - and for google/facebook/microsoft that is a joke, though it is interesting that apple introduced that “opt in app do-not-track” thing last year, where facebook shat it’s pants.
I’m an average Joe and try to minimize my digital footprint as much as convenience allows, but keep seeing people say that this is paranoia and doesn’t matter.
it does matter. its not necesserily about not wanting my own data collected, its about everyones being collected, and big tech controlling our whole lives
We (i.e. those of us who work in the industry and care about such things) really need to work on messaging to get through to normal people.
For instance, people are genuinely freaked out at the idea of Facebook listening to them through their phones. It really hits a nerve. Now that isn’t happening, but what is happening is even worse. Facebook are able to predict your behaviour, your thoughts, so well that it gives the illusion that they’re listening to you. They’ve spent decades training their models on your behaviour, your content, both on their website and across the entire web and beyond. And they’ve fucking nailed it.
That’s far far more scary than them listening to you. They know things about you that you don’t even say out loud. It’s terrifying.
“I have nothing to hide”
People just want to use the app, like on TikTok “China is spying you, it will be blocked” many started to looking for VPNs to unblock the app.People don’t care. They will never care.
They will once it hurts their wallets.
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