The Death of Privacy

> All of these scenarios are conceivable in what we call real life.

No they're not, the common user considers the data that they're giving away to be ephemeral, that it has no cost. The reality is that it never disappears and almost always brings the detrimental costs for the future of society and democracy. And still, no one cares, because of the fundamental misunderstanding what it's really about.

Cory delivers a good talk on this: "What the cyberoptimists got wrong - and what to do about it"

https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11582-cory_doctorow_fireside_chat

Just ask yourself "Can you compete with Facebook?" "Why not?" "Explain how it's not a monopoly"

btw the regulations won't fix it

Companies which respect your privacy and freedom:

https://puri.sm/products

https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide

https://ryf.fsf.org

This article and the Atlantic article about one or two spaces after a period were both posted 5 hours ago. That article has 50 comments, this one a single comment. Interesting.

>“surveillance capitalism”, which she defined as: “a new economic order that claims human experience as the raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction and sales”.

The page of newstatesman.com embraces "this idea", hurray.