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Zeus posted...

By signing up for these services, you opt in for that exposure. You could still have all of your privacy by not signing up for anything or, at the very least, using fake info.

Yes, which is part of why I mentioned that I tend to avoid signing up for those services. Except for the sort of services that are harder to avoid, or where convenience massively trumps other concerns (like using a credit card to buy via Amazon rather than trying to track down a brick-and-mortar bookstore and paying with cash, etc).



Zeus posted...

As for the notion of being born in a generation where you had an expectation of privacy, I have to laugh. Just because you didn't know that information on you was being compiled and sold at the time doesn't mean it wasn't happening

That's why I said the expectation of privacy and not the straight-up reality of it.

Even if people's expectations of privacy were little more than an illusion, the fact remains that those expectations existed, and will still cause cognitive dissonance when brought up against the cold reality that everyone's info is constantly being bought and sold. And honestly, before the proliferation of computer systems, the DEGREE to which information COULD be bought at sold was at least somewhat limited. Data-mining and personality-typing today is vastly advanced beyond what it was even two decades ago, let alone four, or six.

People who grow up believing that every facet of their lives is known to someone somewhere aren't going to be bothered by the idea that their buying history or search engine history is being sold to someone, because it's just par for the course. But people who spend years of their lives operating on the assumption that privacy IS a thing will absolutely still react negatively every time some new aspect of that invasive reality is brought to light. At least until it keeps happening over and over, and they're faced with the apathy of the young, and eventually they're worn down and burn out, and stop caring whether or not Google knows what sort of deviant porn they're looking up.

It's why people can still muster at least SOME outrage about NSA phone tapping or the government reading your email or the like. Though most of the last few scandals alone those lines also show pretty clearly that the idea of informational privacy is growing weaker and weaker all the time.

As a technological society, we're becoming more and more enured to the idea that no aspect of your life is off-limits to other people.


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