My mom claims there is no problems into being tracked and stuff and that “Every normal person will use gmail”;
My brother says you only should hide your data if you are a criminal or something.
My mom claims there is no problems into being tracked and stuff and that “Every normal person will use gmail”;
My brother says you only should hide your data if you are a criminal or something.
Me, a software engineer working for a major cSaaS provider that partners with other companies that specialise in Mobile Real User Monitoring, Open Telemetry, Bluetooth beacons, etc.: “Eh, no idea what they do with that info. Now let me just ignore all these non-anonymized analytics, spans, traces, and metrics that these companies capture about your devices and the health of their applications and infrastructure.”
I stopped bringing these things up years ago. Can’t explain this to persons who don’t care or are not remotely close to being tech savvy. Let them be content and enjoy the things they enjoy.
Mention dynamic pricing then
No 1 answer for sure…
“They already have my information anyway.”
But how to argue against? I once said, in Europe you have the right to get all the information deleted. Guess why they established this law?
Privacy is a human right.
Exactly!
That information becomes less value the older it is. If you go dark all of a sudden tomorrow, that information will be worth a small fraction in a year. And there’s the old saying: “The best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago. The second best time is now.”