RE: Slaving over a marketplace bug
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Well, I don't know how many people are conflating "privacy" with "being invisible". I know myself and people like me are more interested in "privacy" as in "if I don't think you need/want you to know something, then I shouldn't be forced to tell you just because you're desperate to sell it to advertisers at the highest profit and all the rest" :)
I'm all for governments being completely transparent though.
I don't trade so it's not going XD I only know how anything is going when you're all talking about it.
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Quite a lot seem to think that they are invisible when they avoid something like social media, even though all of their search results are essentially being logged in a manner that builds a social profile on them anyway - one that they have no idea about.
The problem is that you shouldn't be forced to tell about yourself, but that doesn't stop them collecting the same answers through indirect means, that essentially negates the not telling. One thing I find interesting lately is with the GDPR stuff, there is an op-in for personalized advertising - and people assume opting out means that the tracking stops - but I don't believe it actually does, it is just that they won't offer me the personalization.
Would be great if the governments were forced by us to become transparent, but they won't do this willingly and will likely engineer some "fear event" that justifies hiding some information from the public - the kinds of information holes where trillions of dollars sink into, never to be visible again.
I'm pretty sure that's what opting out of personalised advertising does too XD
I guess quite a lot more than I thought conflate "privacy" with "anonymity" then. And yeh that's also a thing that shouldn't be happening. I've worked with people that have done data mining before and remember pushing back a LOT on some of the stuff they excitedly wanted to do. Fortunately with this particular bunch they realised where I was coming from otherwise I would have had to stop being friends with them x_x
I think with changing demographics and whatnot governments might shift to being more transparent. It will probably take way longer than any of us wanbt it to and hopefully won't go via dystopian nightmare and bloody revolution first XD
I know a guy here who was involved back in the day - it is scary what was possible ten years ago and how far they are willing to dig - just imagine now. The most powerful governments in the world have their own divisions and well, ethics don't come into it.
There is hope that through our own consumption habits we could force their hand and drive a change - it will take time for sure and it will need to become very transparent. A lot of the drive has already started through whistleblowers who uncover what we would never have to agreed to had we known.
I think it would be interesting to see how many people would support going to war, if they had to pay directly from their own wallet.
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