@ohyran there is a case to be made that it's really not the users' fault. Certain corporations have made their business model out of users not being able to understand the consequences of their actions.
Corps have armies of lawyers and technologists to make sense out of new technologies and changing law; users are fscked.
Technology changes faster than we can adapt:
http://rys.io/en/67
@rysiek I disagree with the last bit as I see it the other way around - technology especially social ones changes too fast for companies to be able to abuse it for profit. There is always a window of opportunity that closes eventually. "Customers" are boned yes, "users" might be.
Also if a conman tricks a person over and over - it doesn't excuse the conmans action... but the victim should be able to hear that he/she is a bit thick.
@ohyran the con-man in this instance is wearing a very nice suite, has shiny packaging and products, and the con being pulled is a whole new kind of con.
Technology is completely opaque for most people. Privacy is completely misunderstood (at least in the digital sphere) by most people.
We need media competences education in school. We need privacy-protecting regulation. It's not the users' fault, for the most part, as frustrating as this might be.
Jens Reuterberg
Rysiekúr (old account)