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Privacy Isn't Dead. Far from It

11 pointsby gslinover 1 year ago

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nobody9999over 1 year ago
I&#x27;m not so sure. In fact, I think privacy is dying a slow, painful death by a thousand cuts.<p>Not because there aren&#x27;t folks (myself included) who care about privacy and not because we haven&#x27;t made some strides to protect individual privacy. We have, as the EFF&#x27;s blog post outlines.<p>Unfortunately, it may well be too little, too late. Almost all service vendors snarf up as much data&#x2F;PII as they can, and rafts of manufacturers, including appliance manufacturers (from TVs to washing machines to toaster ovens), auto makers, &quot;smart&quot; phone makers and on and on, with more snarfing up data every day.<p>Even if you care about this stuff and take steps to limit your digital footprint, unless you&#x27;re willing to squat in a lean-to in the woods you&#x27;ll need give up significant amounts of PII just to live in our technological society.<p>Since I&#x27;m not willing to go completely off the grid, I have to make compromises that jeopardize my privacy and data security every single day.<p>As such, despite what the EFF says (and I support the good work they do!), privacy is dying and we&#x27;re allowing it to be drowned in the bath tub. :(
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