The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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