jessems
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
One problem I see is that the invasion/violation is abstract, instantaneous and committed by an inanimate thing. I wrote something about it here along the same lines:
I've been getting very positive responses on this short essay / thought experiment on privacy. Very curious what the HN crowd thinks.
I'm Dutch and in The Netherlands WhatsApp is ubiquitous, it's hard to live without it. I live in Switzerland, and here it's similar (although not as bad).
It disgusts me how FB/WA seem to keep pushing the limit on what they collect on us, but until now I didn't think it was viable to convince my friends and family to move to another platform.
Now I think there are many platforms that offer better guarantees and that work according to healthier incentives than WhatsApp. This essay was to help convince my friends of this.
I've been trying to convince my friends to use Signal and in the process I've done some writing to figure out exactly what I believe. This analogy has been the result.