I keep saying this, and nobody believes me, but I'm just going to keep trying:
These things happen because so often we focus the privacy conversation on corporations, which is exactly where the governments want it to be.
My controversial but strong opinion is that privacy from corporations matters very little, but privacy from governments matters very much.
We need to stop allowing the conversation to get distracted by talking about cookies and ad-tracking and whatnot, and always bring it right back to privacy from governments.
Yes, corporations and the government are often in cahoots here - but even then we should be talking about how wrong it is for governments to be buying/taking/demanding data from corporations - keeping the focus squarely on the government.
The worst thing a corporation is likely to do (other than giving your data to governments) is to sell you something. That's all they want. They collect data so they can make money off you. That's not so scary to me. Governments want to put you in jail (or freeze your bank account, etc) if you get out of line.
These things happen because so often we focus the privacy conversation on corporations, which is exactly where the governments want it to be.
My controversial but strong opinion is that privacy from corporations matters very little, but privacy from governments matters very much.
We need to stop allowing the conversation to get distracted by talking about cookies and ad-tracking and whatnot, and always bring it right back to privacy from governments.
Yes, corporations and the government are often in cahoots here - but even then we should be talking about how wrong it is for governments to be buying/taking/demanding data from corporations - keeping the focus squarely on the government.
The worst thing a corporation is likely to do (other than giving your data to governments) is to sell you something. That's all they want. They collect data so they can make money off you. That's not so scary to me. Governments want to put you in jail (or freeze your bank account, etc) if you get out of line.