thesofafox -- 1y Not necessarily. But even your own country, Switzerland, has legislation requiring FOSS software exclusively to be used by government institutions. That's a huge step in the right direction. Now imagine if we had similar legislation for consumers. I don't have an exact answer for what the solution is, but it would force companies to change and more consumers would be aware of privacy implications even if the legislation got repealed. reply [1 reply]Not necessarily. But even your own country, Switzerland, has legislation requiring FOSS software exclusively to be used by government institutions. That's a huge step in the right direction. Now imagine if we had similar legislation for consumers. I don't have an exact answer for what the solution is, but it would force companies to change and more consumers would be aware of privacy implications even if the legislation got repealed.
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I don't always understand why people expect others to do the "protecting" of privacy for us.Yes, I agree that there should be standards and measures for privacy protection from institutions andbusinesses. Leave it to a few bad actors to ruin everything for the majority.Ultimately, if you're truly concerned of your privacy on this day and age, use the available tools and bemindful of your surroundings and what you're willing to put out there."There is no freedom without privacy", blah blah, sounds like whining with expectations from everyone else to dothe work for you so you don't have to change and make sacrifices.
I agree that people need to take privacy into their own hands, and I think the majority of people that care do.BUTI also believe that the current landscape in technology does require others to make changes, protecting privacyfor others.Two corporations, Google and Mozilla (funded mainly by Google,) control all of our modern web browser optionswith questionable privacy in mind. Gaming? Forget playing some of the things you may enjoy if you want to haveprivacy with your operating system. And smartphones are a whole other disaster in that world, leaving virtuallyno good option beyond Google or Apple's OS. Linux phones lack a lot of basic functionality still.In short, we lack basic tools for privacy in many areas due to lack of legislation, and a lack of effort fromlarge entities that should be putting in effort. Because of that, it's unreasonable to think that we can just bemindful, use certain tools, and be fine. We DO need other people to change and do some work so we have theoption to be more private digitally.
There was a time when we could choose to be private. That ended when people were made to believe that bysacrificing their privacy they could be safe. That by sacrificing privacy, they could offer you better productsto sell to you.Would you really trust the same people who took it away to give that back?
Not necessarily. But even your own country, Switzerland, has legislation requiring FOSS software exclusively tobe used by government institutions. That's a huge step in the right direction.Now imagine if we had similar legislation for consumers. I don't have an exact answer for what the solution is,but it would force companies to change and more consumers would be aware of privacy implications even if thelegislation got repealed.
I agree that people need to take privacy into their own hands, and I think the majority of people that care do.
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I also believe that the current landscape in technology does require others to make changes, protecting privacy for others.
Two corporations, Google and Mozilla (funded mainly by Google,) control all of our modern web browser options with questionable privacy in mind. Gaming? Forget playing some of the things you may enjoy if you want to have privacy with your operating system. And smartphones are a whole other disaster in that world, leaving virtually no good option beyond Google or Apple's OS. Linux phones lack a lot of basic functionality still.
In short, we lack basic tools for privacy in many areas due to lack of legislation, and a lack of effort from large entities that should be putting in effort. Because of that, it's unreasonable to think that we can just be mindful, use certain tools, and be fine. We DO need other people to change and do some work so we have the option to be more private digitally.
AK 👸🏻 -- 1y [parent] | reply [1 reply]There was a time when we could choose to be private. That ended when people were made to believe that by sacrificing their privacy they could be safe. That by sacrificing privacy, they could offer you better products to sell to you. Would you really trust the same people who took it away to give that back?
