It’s a trade in risk. There’s the really severe risk of being hacked, which has an incredibly low likelihood, vs the relatively low severity risk of compromised privacy but with an absolute certainty for likelihood.
Personally, I prefer to take my chances with the high severity/low likelihood. But then, I’m also disgruntled that people don’t realise they’re basically being robbed of $100 every year, if not more, in terms of the value of their data.
Like 15 years ago, I was willing to install a monitoring app on my phone and get like $40 in Amazon gift cards a year. Now that’s gone…Amazon is basically mask off Evilcorp, I have to opt out of letting AI read all of my text messages for “training data”, basically every service I depend on is throwing privacy policy changes at me every month and adding forced arbitration clauses to contracts, and my TV sends Samsung something 30,000 times a day while forcing my default channel to be streaming their ads network after every update. I’m so damn tires of it all getting worse. I feel like the last few years it’s really ramped up and the recent “AI training data” needs of virtually even major tech company have just broken me.
Now I’m working to host everything locally and strip tracking and harden security as much as I can.
It’s a trade in risk. There’s the really severe risk of being hacked, which has an incredibly low likelihood, vs the relatively low severity risk of compromised privacy but with an absolute certainty for likelihood.
Personally, I prefer to take my chances with the high severity/low likelihood. But then, I’m also disgruntled that people don’t realise they’re basically being robbed of $100 every year, if not more, in terms of the value of their data.
This year is the year of fighting that for me.
Like 15 years ago, I was willing to install a monitoring app on my phone and get like $40 in Amazon gift cards a year. Now that’s gone…Amazon is basically mask off Evilcorp, I have to opt out of letting AI read all of my text messages for “training data”, basically every service I depend on is throwing privacy policy changes at me every month and adding forced arbitration clauses to contracts, and my TV sends Samsung something 30,000 times a day while forcing my default channel to be streaming their ads network after every update. I’m so damn tires of it all getting worse. I feel like the last few years it’s really ramped up and the recent “AI training data” needs of virtually even major tech company have just broken me.
Now I’m working to host everything locally and strip tracking and harden security as much as I can.
Forced arbitration needs to be made illegal, or at the very least properly regulated such that the arbitrator doesn’t work for the business.