Janet Vertesi
"We don’t often talk about “convenience” when we talk about data privacy, but we should. In the game of personal-data gathering, convenience is the bait. Privacy is essential to a well-functioning democracy, but companies have noticed that we are willing to throw it away and declare it “dead” for the sake of a few manufactured conveniences."
Please share if you know someone who needs to hear this.
https://www.publicbooks.org/data-free-disney/
Aral Balkan
@cyberlyra Excellent article, Janet. Loved it.
One note: we must be careful not to blame the victims. If almost every dollar of investment goes into building convenient traps, if our environment is littered with them as the de facto output of the system we inhabit, we’re left with little real choice. Our options are limited to allowing corporations to exploit us, dedicating every moment to self-defense, or perhaps receding from modern life. We don’t choose convenience, we’re force fed it.
Janet Vertesi
@aral i hear you, and I’m not a fan of victim blaming. But I think there’s another way, which is far more invigorating and empowering: build differently, and build with new communities. We don’t just have to clamor for change or sit helplessly waiting for big tech to grow a moral spine. I see alternative tech communities actively building different ideas into being that let us participate in the modern, connected world—with the conveniences but without the traps.
Aral Balkan
@cyberlyra Indeed :)
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