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Feeling like Privacy is a lost war.
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this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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Privacy is a collective "war", it's not something that can be fought on individual level. You can adopt some precaution on a personal level, and try to do better, but it's something that must be brought to a collective level.
Same as climate change policy and worker right.
It’s a collective war that I also feel is lost. Especially, when there is little to no policies in effect to stop these data brokers. Unless you live in California.
We have policies on Europe but even they do not help. The ad business is completely out of control, on some sites there are over 200 as companies gathering your data and selling them through the real time bidding system. it's impossible to know who bought the data. just have a look what's been uncovered lately.
https://mastodon.social/@wchr/111410591996456032
I live in Europe, and I feel the battle is still on (but very very difficult)
Not to worry, climate change will bring back privacy
Even then, not so much. I've been tugging on those particular wires, and the overall response seems to be, send a reply once, then ghost you until you've forgotten that you asked them. They do nothing during that time, and will probably continue to do nothing well after we forget.
I "live" in California to every company that I do business there that also operates in CA...