Comment by renegat0x0 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by renegat0x0 | Hacker News Reader

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Normalization of abusive behavior is not OK! If one company abuses you for 10+ years, then it is not OK for other companies to abuse you!

If big data were not lucrative, they could not sell your data. If your data was not valuable Facebook and Google would immediately remove it from their servers without hesitation.

Mantra.

- I don't care about privacy

- I don't care big tech has access to all my data

- I don't care that Google has access all my politicians data

- I don't care I am building a worse future for society

- I don't care that I am being recorded while having sex in Tesla

- I don't care I am building surveillance state

- I don't care that my data are being sold to China, to India, to wherever highest bidder lives

- I don't care how my data are being used. I don't care if my data are being used to train military robot dogs that will be used for wars

- I don't care that I will not receive insurance because my medical data are sold wherever

- I don't care about privacy

- I don't care about privacy

- I don't care about privacy

"I have nothing to hide"

Right but I think his point was that we accepted this decades ago, and this latest case hasn't changed anything at all. In other words the baseline hasn't shifted.

No, you are not correct. The amount of surveillance IS rising. At first search data was recorded, emails, then maps, social interactions, car sensors, smart speakers.

Now literally everything you do is captured, repackaged and sold. Corporations also are more creative when it comes to selling your data. They have more data, they sell more.

Every drama is adding more to the privacy nightmare.

Sorry, but you cannot say that "nope nothing has changed for privacy in last 10 years".

'We' didn't accept it. The internet expanded and the mass media conversation moved on to the next shiny thing. The majority of geeks have vehemently opposed mass surveillance every time it's been revealed (Snowdon, Assange). The majority of normies are completely unaware of the extent to which companies like Palantir and Clearview AI sell their most personal information to 'law enforcement', and Microsoft, Google and Facebook own and manipulate their information to fuel advertising.

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