Re:Invisible Manipulation: ways our data is being used again...
by blub on Sunday October 14, 2018 @04:05AM
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No one will come to you and forbid you from using Google or Facebook.
If everything goes right, government and society will instead pressure those companies to offer honest alternatives to their existing spying-based services and make it cristal clear how one pays.
The masochist, careless and indifferent will likely still be able to use the services they know and love, but their lack of interest will no longer be paid for by everyone.
Smoking was also pretty cool at one point...
The real conceit comes from people who think the rest of us don't know what we're doing; we do, and we don't care because it doesn't matter. Those people have no special information, and they're not smarter than us.
There is no boogeyman, there are no "dire consequences", and the people peddling that nonsense are tilting at windmills.