Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by aetherson on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:44PM
(#21021504)
You used the first person pronoun a lot there. Do you yourself actually feel that you are short-sighted and that you consistently underestimate the value of your data? Or are you putting yourself in the place of a hypothetical other person?
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by loup-vaillant on Friday September 20, 2019 @01:40PM
(#21029282)
Hypothetical. The post I replied to used "I" and "you", so I used "you" and "I". That said, I genuinely don't know how much my data is worth…
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by aetherson on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:24PM
(#21031435)
I ask because people are often very quick to suppose that they are part of the educated elite but other people need them to protect them from their own bad choices.
Do you, for example, not use Google because you are concerned they are getting too good a deal from you? Duck Duck Go exists.
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by loup-vaillant on Saturday September 21, 2019 @03:53AM
(#21034060)
I use DuckDuckGo, and only fairly rarely fall back to Google. My Gmail account is dormant, I set up my own mail server. But I still have an Android phone…
Not if the thing I value is my personal data. Because I, as a typical short sighted consumer, will consistently underestimate the value of my data, as well as how my data affects those around me (extreme case: my data is my social graph, which you can use to reconstruct the social graph of my acquaintances).
If I don't know the actual value of what I am giving up, I am naturally going to get swindled.