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Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by jessaustin on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:09PM (#12446213)
I don't want to give up, and I don't want to check out.

One thing to try, would be to lie more. We don't owe giant corporations the truth, but we especially don't owe them the whole truth. Never use your real name. Use fake addresses when you can. Use different email accounts for each site that needs one. Never use "social media logins". When you have to make payments, do so through Paypal or some other obfuscating service. Zealously delete cookies, and use whatever tech is available to help with that.

There are probably theoretical ways around this, "fingerprinting" etc. It might be like outrunning the lion, however: one might only have to be faster than some other prey, who happily stays logged into FB all the time even when ordering sex toys and vaporizers.

Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by tunap on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:45PM (#12448072)
Give em all the bad info they deserve!

I've been giving city park addresses, lottery hotlines and/or obscure character names to everyone but the essentials & the guv. My first lesson in guerrilla counter-marketing came when my book club mis-typed my middle initial and I was flooded with pre-approved credit cards with said typo. My twelve year old brain was alive with all the possibilities I could buy with free cash! Apparently, without a job, a SS# and that particular middle initial, I wasn't really pre-approved. Meh.

Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by Frondo on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:34PM (#12446603)
Yeah, but the convenience is, for example, I get cheap flight tickets, Cortana picks those out of my email and adds the trip to my calendar automatically, etc. How am I going to lie about any of that?

If your answer involves paying cash for airline tickets, then we're back to the high-priced, inconvenient world I'm no longer interested in trying to maintain.

Stuffing databases with fake data is fun when you're signing up for a newspaper paywall, sure, but that's not a sustainable, long-term solution.

This is why I'm looking at law and society, that's the only way these rights will be preserved long-term.

Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by knz on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:00PM (#12447628)
Isn't being selective with what you lie about the answer to this? If you don't care that Google know about a purchase then use your normal email/credit card etc. If you want additional privacy then use methods that allow this. Privacy can be a continuum.

Given that it can probably be traced back to a mailing address and credit card these measures may be worthless anyway.

Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by jessaustin on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:26PM (#12447877)
Flying commercially is never going to be a privacy-preserving activity, for a wide variety of reasons that have nothing to do with payments or online calendars. This is just a trade-off that one must accept.
Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:40PM (#12448015)
Not if you're John Gilmore.