Privacy isn’t dead: it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t inconveniently ask mobile carriers to stop tracking my location 24/7. I can’t inconveniently ask credit card companies to stop tracking my purchases and a lot of places simply don’t accept cash anymore. I can’t inconveniently ask my car OEM to stop tracking me, and eventually there will be no old cars left or no parts available for them. I can’t ask my bank to disable SMS authentication. I can’t get a good job without forking over intimate details to sites like Indeed. I can’t inconveniently ask websites not to use browser fingerprinting to track my activity across the web, and there’s really no way to even block that effectively, either.

  In some ways its inconvenient, in other ways its nearly impossible. Or expensive.

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  • csolisr@hub.azkware.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can't inconveniently ask, you now must inconveniently forgo entire sections of modern society and return to physical, analog workarounds - if you're even legally allowed to go without, that is. Going all cash and forgoing most banks and several major stores, avoiding electronics as much as possible, driving around with bicycles instead of public transport or personal vehicles, settling for jobs that still accept physical CVs. At this point, the only proper opt-out would be to go live in the mountains, growing your own crops and living like in the stone age.

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually, in the US the overturning of Roe V Wade was the biggest blow to our privacy rifhts ever, there’s nothing any tech company could do that’s worse.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I disagree here. even if you don’t own a smartphone do you ever go around where they are carried in public. all sorts of camera systems all over the place. its beyond inconvenient.

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• ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s like widespread work from home: it’s only dead if someone kills it.

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