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> It's the mindset assuming that for anything to have value in data privacy it needs to be 100% perfectly private and secure. It does also need to make a difference though. If Google has say three different ways of figuring out who I am and I eliminate one of them then nothing has changed. Let’s say IP address, fingerprinting and cookies. In that sense it is somewhat all or nothing. Either I’ve eliminated all three o…
> It's the mindset assuming that for anything to have value in data privacy it needs to be 100% perfectly private and secure. It does also need to make a difference though. If Google has say three different ways of figuring out who I am and I eliminate one of them then nothing has changed. Let’s say IP address, fingerprinting and cookies. In that sense it is somewhat all or nothing. Either I’ve eliminated all three o…
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It's hard to discover how much money is being made off selling user data, and I think this only leads to smaller companies trading in user data to disappear, while the larger players can do more with your data behind the scenes. The larger companies having fewer competitors allows them to spend more of their time on finding ways that are "legal" to track users, ones which are technically in compliance with existing l…
Larger companies has always been able to break the law and get away with it. That is unlikely to change. However laws do have an effect on such companies, because their protection is only as strong as people are willing to give them exceptions. When they break the law too much and looses popular support, the result in targeted laws that either break the large companies into smaller chunks or impose additional laws th…
For me, privacy is a way, or tao. It's how I carry myself, internally, externally. And I know much of my effort is ineffective. I know I'm oozing identifiers and unique signatures everywhere. But to me it's similar to posture, or maybe hygiene. I stand tall but know I'm feeble. I wash but know the bacteria persists. And I actually think the invasion of privacy is analogous to bacteria in its inevitability, ubiquity,…