I deal with it mostly by asking myself what "privacy" I'm really concerned about. Let's see... I don't want anyone actually stealing my money. I don't want sensitive security information that can be used to steal my money (ie passwords) falling into unauthorized hands.
But my personal history? My photos? Words I've written? Oh well. If someone wants that stuff, they can probably get it. And the gaping maw of robotic commerce doesn't actually care about me personally, it only cares what it can sell me.
I'm not worried about the police or some authoritarian tyranny on a personal level, on the level where what I say on the internet matters. I worry about it in an impersonal way. When the robot overlords are rounding up the granola-munching people of south Minneapolis for extermination, they won't be checking our internet history first.
But my personal history? My photos? Words I've written? Oh well. If someone wants that stuff, they can probably get it. And the gaping maw of robotic commerce doesn't actually care about me personally, it only cares what it can sell me.
I'm not worried about the police or some authoritarian tyranny on a personal level, on the level where what I say on the internet matters. I worry about it in an impersonal way. When the robot overlords are rounding up the granola-munching people of south Minneapolis for extermination, they won't be checking our internet history first.