Patrick LeavySep 25, 2024

I sometimes think that no one cares about online privacy, which makes me really sad, then I read this from @pluralistic - good to know!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/#extinguish-v-improve

So maybe people DO care, but just feel like they can't do much about it?

#surveillancecapitalism #dataprivacy #datarape #tracking

Pluralistic: The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it (07 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Show threadtova
@patrickleavy @pluralistic from conversations I've had it's definitely a lot of feeling helpless that your privacy will be ignored regardless so might as well go along
Sep 25, 2024 at 2:16pmWeb
Show threadPatrick LeavySep 25, 2024

@mouszi @pluralistic yeah that apathy is really depressing. Where is the outrage?

Dave Eggers' book The Every is looking painfully accurate 😬😒

Show threadtovaSep 25, 2024
@patrickleavy @pluralistic the outrage came and went when it didn't change much. when you think of how many erosions of privacy there have been that were pushed through and became the new norm it tracks. there's also not many levers for the average person to pull to do anything
Show threadPatrick LeavySep 25, 2024

@mouszi @pluralistic you're right, #bigtech just rides it out, lobbies, and we begrudgingly accept a new norm. 😒

They are boiling the frog 🐸. What will it take to make us jump out of the pot?
Another Cambridge Analytica?

Show threadtovaSep 26, 2024
@patrickleavy @pluralistic I don't think Cambridge Analytica moved the needle for th average person tbh. seeing a legislator pass something with real impact that's not just another "what about the kids" bill that also errodes privacy would be a good start
Show threadPatrick LeavySep 26, 2024

@mouszi @pluralistic but it will need a scandal otherwise the 'security services + big tech' will block it.

Or it takes a few people at regulatory bodies with REAL integrity.

Cory Doctorow wrote a great essay about how the Irish have been shamefully protecting big tech. As an Irishman myself that was hard to read, but it was a wake up call:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze/#dirty-old-town

Pluralistic: Ireland’s privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher (15 May 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow