Privacy in exchange for security
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 4:07 am
Online magazine Slate recently devoted an article to it . The slogan seems to be used mostly as a ' hate to say I told you so '. Facebook brings its users to the advertisers. You are the product. Facebook makes money. Before Zuckerberg had written a single line of code, you were the product. The user. And you should have known , and you were naive, and your outrage is a charade .
Visual artist Serra is now seventy-nine years old and Facebook knows just about everything. Who knows what else Facebook's algorithms do with your data. Jurriaan Krielaart writes on Emerce: " Data is the only good that can be stolen and still remain in your possession ." Personal data: you have it. If it is stolen, you still have it. Your ownership simply means nothing anymore. The European Union is preparing for the GDPR . So much for 2018.
Let’s say Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are just the beginning. Maybe it wouldn’t hurt to throw all that naivety out the window. China judges its citizens on the basis of big data : a social credit system. You drive through five red lights and suddenly you can’t apply for a loan. You can’t buy a house. You can’t open a store. The case has now also landed in the newsroom of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert .
The good news is that the number of traffic fatalities is going down. Or maybe it's because all the automated cars are automatically following the traffic rules. Who knows. Privacy sacrificed on the altar of safety. Meanwhile, the state's deep learning algorithms are drawing conclusions that you can't understand with your mind. You're not just a australia whatsapp number product, you're also a file. A file in a system.
As I write this, a voice tells me that it’s not that bad. You have nothing to hide, so why worry? Thank goodness, the voice of reason.
Also read: The sense and nonsense surrounding 'Bye bye Facebook'
A comforting thought
Okay, then we have been turned into a product by all the social platforms. A product that is also a file. One whose pages are spread a hundred thousand times over the Internet of Things. I would like to see the future more clearly. If this is the situation now, what will the situation be in twenty years? When I am forty-nine?
2038: half a century on earth, half a century of data. From the registration of my name (Roelof Schipper) to my most recent mouse click. Mouse click, a word that will probably not even be understood by then. By then I will be completely transparent. I have nothing to hide anymore. I am a model citizen. A reassuring idea.
Visual artist Serra is now seventy-nine years old and Facebook knows just about everything. Who knows what else Facebook's algorithms do with your data. Jurriaan Krielaart writes on Emerce: " Data is the only good that can be stolen and still remain in your possession ." Personal data: you have it. If it is stolen, you still have it. Your ownership simply means nothing anymore. The European Union is preparing for the GDPR . So much for 2018.
Let’s say Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are just the beginning. Maybe it wouldn’t hurt to throw all that naivety out the window. China judges its citizens on the basis of big data : a social credit system. You drive through five red lights and suddenly you can’t apply for a loan. You can’t buy a house. You can’t open a store. The case has now also landed in the newsroom of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert .
The good news is that the number of traffic fatalities is going down. Or maybe it's because all the automated cars are automatically following the traffic rules. Who knows. Privacy sacrificed on the altar of safety. Meanwhile, the state's deep learning algorithms are drawing conclusions that you can't understand with your mind. You're not just a australia whatsapp number product, you're also a file. A file in a system.
As I write this, a voice tells me that it’s not that bad. You have nothing to hide, so why worry? Thank goodness, the voice of reason.
Also read: The sense and nonsense surrounding 'Bye bye Facebook'
A comforting thought
Okay, then we have been turned into a product by all the social platforms. A product that is also a file. One whose pages are spread a hundred thousand times over the Internet of Things. I would like to see the future more clearly. If this is the situation now, what will the situation be in twenty years? When I am forty-nine?
2038: half a century on earth, half a century of data. From the registration of my name (Roelof Schipper) to my most recent mouse click. Mouse click, a word that will probably not even be understood by then. By then I will be completely transparent. I have nothing to hide anymore. I am a model citizen. A reassuring idea.