Most of us on here are a bit more technically minded than the general public, so we know how these things affect us. For your average person on the street though, nobody’s given a decent answer to the question ‘So what?’
‘The government knows where you live’
‘So what?’
‘The tech company knows what phone you have’
‘So what?’
‘Your ISP knows what sites you’ve visited’
‘So what?’
We know why these things can be bad, and how they might be used against us, but most people don’t, and the attempted explanations don’t get the point across. I’m not going to pretend to have any answers, but until we can convince people that trading privacy for convenience is bad, things are not going to change.
Most of us on here are a bit more technically minded than the general public, so we know how these things affect us. For your average person on the street though, nobody’s given a decent answer to the question ‘So what?’
‘The government knows where you live’ ‘So what?’
‘The tech company knows what phone you have’ ‘So what?’
‘Your ISP knows what sites you’ve visited’ ‘So what?’
We know why these things can be bad, and how they might be used against us, but most people don’t, and the attempted explanations don’t get the point across. I’m not going to pretend to have any answers, but until we can convince people that trading privacy for convenience is bad, things are not going to change.