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Ask HN: Is data privacy just all talk or does it affect your decisions?
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Re: Ask HN: Is data privacy just all talk or does it affect your decisions?
#2I'm twenty years behind my peers with adopting quite a few things, so I don't think I'm all talk.
Not really sure how to prove it, though
Re: Ask HN: Is data privacy just all talk or does it affect your decisions?
#3Most people, when talking abstractly about data privacy, are all for it, I think. But then see how many of us participate in bonus programs when shopping, carry smartphones that track our locations at all times, give all kinds of permissions to apps, or accepting away annoying pop up banners.
So, is it all just talk, and in practice, we don't really worry about data privacy?
If so, what are the reasons? Is it because we don't really experience an immidiate negative impact? Or perhaps the alleged negative implications have been overemphasized?
What are your thoughts...?
Re: Ask HN: Is data privacy just all talk or does it affect your decisions?
#4I'm twenty years behind my peers with adopting quite a few things, so I don't think I'm all talk. Not really sure how to prove it, though
No need to prove it. Is this specificially because of doubts about the privacy implications?
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#5Of course it affects decisions both personal and in business? What makes you think it doesn't?
Re: Ask HN: Is data privacy just all talk or does it affect your decisions?
#6I still refuse to use a smartphone or social media.
Re: Ask HN: Is data privacy just all talk or does it affect your decisions?
#7I quit Google Search (for DDG), Chrome (for Iridium on OSX and Safari on iOS), Android (for iPhone), Dropbox (for Internxt). I am still using Gmail but only for dumb emails. For the important ones, I moved to Tuta.
I also quit Facebook, but firstly because it’s a shithole, it’s the place where you ‘reconnect’ with ‘friends’ from Junior High… Good Lord!
I don’t have accounts on Instagram, Snap and, God forbid, TikTok. I only access Twitter via XDeck, and for no more than 5 minutes a day.
I am doing my best.
Re: Ask HN: Is data privacy just all talk or does it affect your decisions?
#8I think it's important for a small minority of people. Most of the population does not give a second thought, as long as it doesn't affect their lives in an obvious way. Most people are fine sharing their data, if it leads to better more personalized ads, most people gladly share their personal information on social media.
Data privacy is of course very important, but not something the general public is super interested in.
Re: Ask HN: Is data privacy just all talk or does it affect your decisions?
#9I left gmail for self-hosted email. I host a matrix server. I left reddit for Lemmy. I left Android for iPhone. These and many other decisions have been about increasing data privacy.
In a sense, I stopped working for a corporation and pursued my own life for similar reasons. If others are telling me what to do, I am being limited, because I have found my own ideas to be better. Instead of being bitter about that, it is better to execute on them.
In the pursuit of privacy, many other things snap into place. A questioning of authority. A questioning of how society is run. A tracing of the root causes. It becomes very clear the situation we are in on a planetary scale. That clarity spreads to a realization of the extremely limited and self serving ambitions held by those driving the collective human vehicle, whether corporate or government.
Long story short, yes, privacy affects my decisions, and it is one of many starting points to reach some obvious and inevitable conclusions.
Re: Ask HN: Is data privacy just all talk or does it affect your decisions?
#10I think it's important for a small minority of people. Most of the population does not give a second thought, as long as it doesn't affect their lives in an obvious way. Most people are fine sharing their data, if it leads to better more personalized ads, most people gladly share their personal information on social media. Data privacy is of course very important, but not something the general public is super interes…
Which begs the question: if the general public is not super interested in data privacy, is it still fair to call it very important?