I was an early ProtonMail and ProtonVPN supporter and for years would only chat to family members over Signal. I'm conscious of how my phone can track me and of the benefits of using cash.
But I still can't see how avoiding Disney tracking is for her kids' "safety". The Mouse doesn't loom so large in my mind. And I can't judge family members for making the judgment call that they don't really care what Facebook and Google collect about their online activity.
We badly need more experiment like those because this tell a lot about our society!
It’s exactly like vegan diets. You have moral principles and you try to see how far/how difficult it is to apply them. This also helps other realize what is happening/what they are missing.
I admire her because I would be like her before having kids. As they say: "I had principles. Now I have kids.".
In the 1980's, the German state tried twice to do a census of the population. Twice the protests by the people were so vivid, that they failed to do them. In 1983, the highest German court declared the planned census unconstitutional and in 1987, protests on May 1st turned into violence over this issue.
In 2022, Germany did a census again. There was basically no public objection.
“Don’t go” is a valid one but thought-terminating.
What if those principles are extended to, say, public transports? Public services? Shops? Stadium?
It sets the goalpost. Without defining privacy and standing up for it, the goalpost will be moved and pretty soon no privacy will be normalized.
It helps define things for employees of these companies. If people inside the company never have to deal with someone who values their privacy, it will never be tested. This also helps employees that actually value privacy and sees what goes on inside.
It sets and exacmple for others who value their privacy and don't know what they can do to protect it.
It prompts discussion. And hopefully laws.
As a related example, Richard Stallman might be controversial in his behavior (he doesn't use proprietary software, or use a phone), but years after he created the GPL it is pretty obvious he was onto something and has helped us.
I love my privacy and my kids' but I don't understand this extreme behavior... She is worried that companies know she has kids? Can't they just pull public records to see that? Or read this article published under her full name with attached social media profiles?
Personally I don't want to be tracked by Disney in the real world, but wouldn't mind it inside the park. Or, like another commenter pointed, just don't go. Disney will track you with or without a band (isn't every square inch of the place under CCTV?)