Nowadays #convenience like a #Trojan_Horse.
#PrivacyGuides #article: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/

"Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails."
"Whether this comes from ignorance, incompetence, greed, or malicious intent can be debated. It matters little, because the result is the same: Technologies collecting (and monetizing) a shameful amount of data from everyone."
"The response provided when privacy experts raise the alarm is often to minimize concerns saying "it's only optional, and people can opt out".
But for how long will we keep the right to opt out if we never exercise this right? How many dark patterns and intimidation techniques are used to pressure people into saying yes, or to make sure they never know about their right to opt out?"

P. S. I especially like the analogy between #face_scans in airports and a password which is stolen from you thousands of times and you aren't able to change it: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/#:~:text=Facial%20scans%20and,a%20new%20password.

#TravelConvenience #surveillance #mass_suirvellance #AI #privacy #privacyMatters #parking