It matters at least somewhat to 90% of the general public and is very important to almost 50%:
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/file...
So no, you're extremely wrong.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/file...
So no, you're extremely wrong.
What do people really care about and will actually action? Very different to what you think.
Turns out 99% will use Google and Facebook and crack on despite the tracking and not really care about it.
I mean, yes, I get the strong impression you don't care.
I really struggle to believe that 20% of people have heard of Snowden in any meaningful way to form an opinion.
I'm picturing 20% of the people who live on my street. When I talk to them I don't get the impression most of them follow the news in that much depth. Many have been retired and zoned out from any kind of public life for many years. (Not a criticism - maybe they have other interests than me. Maybe they're happier than me for that?)
> I get the strong impression you don't care.
No, sorry you've imagine that out of nowhere. It isn't implied by anything I've said - I haven't talked about my personal beliefs at all.
I'm just a realist about what the people around me outside the tech and media bubble are reading and thinking.
Do you live on a street in the Valley with 100 Google engineers? Most people don't.
72% in the UK.
>Do you live on a street in the Valley
You don't... really believe in polling do you?
People say all kinds of things in response to polling. That's why polling gets it wrong again and again. For example... the 2016 election.
Guess what: phone my 90 year old neighbours with a question about Edward Snowden... they aren't going to even pick up the phone!
Look at what people PRACTICALLY do rather than what they poll to do. You'll find it doesn't match.
That's correct. The US is currently conducting a poll to decide most of the composition of its government (including some local and many national political positions) and as you claim, the voters will say "all kinds of things".
But the answers stick anyway. Even though they say "all kinds of things" you live in a democracy and those "all kinds of things" decides the rules. Now, given that I'd be trying to maybe get them to say smarter things, but if you prefer to just smirk about it I cannot stop you.
I don't understand where this snark is coming from?
Am I saying something that you don't wish was true?
The reality is... most people out there don't care about privacy nor Snowden. The reality is most of them are trying to make enough to feed their families this week plus pay their bills and don't have the energy to think about anything else. I'm not smirking about it. I didn't express any opinion about it. I'm telling you the facts!
Are you assuming I think this is good? Where did you read that? You've imagined it!
You're confusing a reality check with an opinion on how I think things should be!
This is a bizarre question. They predicted Clinton would win. She didn’t.
People stopped using it because it stopped being a good way to keep in touch with friends and instead became a Bazaare containing every single person you've ever met for a millisecond. People no longer felt connected, and gravitated to more curated communication channels where they could choose who they talk to.
I'm sure people say it's important in the abstract, but not in practice, and not right now.
Covid risks are _way_ lower here than risks of random creeps misusing names/numbers of women...
I'm less affected by those particular risks, but I still use a burner Twilio SMS number and a burner gmail address that doesn't get used for anything else, with plus addressing to help try identify where a leak happened. If that account starts getting spam to nomdeplume+somesmallbar@gmail.com or nomdeplume+someQRcodesigninservice@gmail.com, I might get a smoking gun about who leaked it.
If the spammers are cleaning their lists of that well-enough-known email tracking trick and sending enough smtp to make the address a problem to use, I can just walk away from that gmail account and set up a new one.
I'm contemplating building an automated system of "rolling 4 week validity email addresses" that I can easily enough work out on-the-spot, perhaps month/week-of-month encoding so I'd use nomdeplume-102+randombar@example.org this week (102 being october 2nd week) and only have the addresses live long enough for contact tracing purposes. Perhaps using something t5hat works the same as gmail's "plus addressing" but different enough that spammers list cleaning tools won't know about it. That'd involve running my own mail server though, and the risks here right now are so low (in the single digit cases per day in a city of 5million people) that I'm more motivated to just lie on the contact forms instead...
From the linked web page: "sample size 1006 respondents". Given the UK population of around 68 million that seems a small sample.