Opinion | Privacy Is Too Big to Understand - The New York Times - 1 views
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There is “no single rhetorical approach likely to work on a given audience and none too dangerous to try. Any story that sticks is a good one,”
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This newsletter is about finding ways to make this stuff stick in your mind and to arm you with the information you need to take control of your digital life.
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“Privacy” is an impoverished word — far too small a word to describe what we talk about when we talk about the mining, transmission, storing, buying, selling, use and misuse of our personal information.
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When technology governs so many aspects of our lives — and when that technology is powered by the exploitation of our data — privacy isn’t just about knowing your secrets, it’s about autonomy
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“Privacy is really about being able to define for ourselves who we are for the world and on our own terms,”
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not a choice that belongs to an algorithm or data brokerEntities that collect, aggregate and sell individuals’ personal data, derivatives and inferences from disparate public and private sources. Glossary and definitely not to Facebook.”
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real-time data, once assumed to be protected by phone companies, was available for sale to bounty hunters for a $300 fee
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It means reckoning with private surveillance databases armed with dossiers on regular citizens and outsourced to the highest bidder
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“Years ago we worried about the N.S.A. building huge server farms, but now it’s much cheaper to go to a private-service vendor and outsource this to a company who can cloak their activity in trade secrets,
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“It’s comparable to asking people to stop using air conditioning because of the ozone layer. It’s not likely to happen because the immediate comfort is more valuable than the long-term fear.