0 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford OP 3 Aug 2023 \ parent \ on: Why Everyone Should Care About Privacy tech
You make some good points. There are tons of tradeoffs. You cannot use the Internet with bullet proof privacy. I can't go out of my house without breaking privacy. This is why you have to start with your risk profile first. Many people I have talked to about privacy that are knowledgeable about things you describe have just given up. Their mindset is what is the point. That's defeatist and we have to be careful to find the line of making priorities and being honest about the effectiveness of our efforts.
Yeah, definitely don’t want to be defeatist, but I don’t see transitioning our lives off the internet as defeatism.
There are things you can do to help privacy online, and everyone should do those things. I just think the default mindset should be “if it’s on the internet, it’s likely not private”, and adjust their interactions with it accordingly.
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I don't think getting offline is defeatist. I was saying people that hear things like that often become defeatist. As if privacy is a boolean. Either you use a phone or the Internet or you have privacy. Privacy isn't yes/no. If people can disconnect I don't consider that defeatism.
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