Re:Privacy is Power: Why the fight for privacy matters
by nbraud on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @09:29AM
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> Google can monetize your information much easier than an ISP.
More to the point: Google is a more central actor, who gets to see the data of far more users, than your ISP ever will.
Moreover, this moves from giving a third party your data, to giving them your metadata, and while people consistently underestimate the value of metadata, there is still an incremental improvement there.
More to the point: Google is a more central actor, who gets to see the data of far more users, than your ISP ever will.
Moreover, this moves from giving a third party your data, to giving them your metadata, and while people consistently underestimate the value of metadata, there is still an incremental improvement there.