There are many enemies of privacy. There are politicians claiming the (at best) misguided pretense of “protecting the children,” intellig...
There are many enemies of privacy. There are politicians claiming the (at best) misguided pretense of “protecting the children,” intellig...
Privacy is a thing of the past with modern cars, phones, cameras everywhere, NSA, evidence laundering, credit cards, etc... we need new laws to restore privacy.
This defeatist attitude, as well as "all-or-nothing" one, is one of the major privacy enemies by itself.
You can not own a car at all, have an older one (which, granted, is not quite a universal longterm option), or from wht I've seen in discussions - depending on the model, a lot of them can have the telematics units disconnected.
Not using a smartphone, leaving it at home or using a Faraday cage (same goes for a dumbphone), using Lineage/Graphene/whatever on it.
Cash. Even in a lot of online stores (the smaller ones, not large universal Amazon-like) I've shopped at you can order delivery to the store's office (which is usually at no extra cost) and pay with cash.
Yes, there are a lot of areas where you have lost. But that doesn't mean you should give up on everything at once then. Privacy is not binary, it is a spectrum.
People in USA take pride in using cashless modes.
I don't understand the flex. You are literally paying commission to a private company for every transaction as well as a permanent record of the purchase in company database linked with so many personally identifiable details.
I don't understand, if so many people care about privacy how come no one in the phone/car etc market are able to make good product which cater to these needs?
There's no money in privacy.
Harvesting and selling personal information is practically a continual source of funds with little to no cost. Why spend time and money developing a product with all the data harvesting elements stripped out to appeals to maybe 5-10% of the market?