I would pay money to have someone clean up my data online since I live in a GDPR country.
I have this weird conspiracy in my brain that big IT companies are just fronts for what the CIA/NSA/governments need to do to do their job.
I don't think those companies really care about getting your data, but government do, because governments saw and know that the internet is not something they directly control. Information is power, and it flows beyond the government's reach and proper authority. I don't really understand how those companies work so hard at great extents to get that data at the limit of the law or morality. I don't see how it's not the government doing this for security or economic reasons.
Liberty and freedom of speech are important, but until the internet, governments were able to have their eyes on sensitive tools. Now citizens have access to technologies that can do a lot of things at the speed of light, so in a way, governments are losing control, so it's natural that governments are trying to get back the control they lost.
Of course politically it's not going to please everyone, but I think that the golden age of information sharing is over.
The problem is that escaping data collection will often be seen as ambiguous, politicized or very complicated, so you can't even justify it morally, you have to consent. I'm a little worried because because at some point you could have cyber activists that could resort to "cyber-terrorism" to attack companies that do data collection, and show it to the public. Sending users their own data would be one way to stain the image of those companies. Ironically, terrorism justified data collection.
I don't think people realize how they are controlling their flow of thought and what they say when they know it can be heard. How many times I thought about what I was writing, knowing its trace could land somewhere that could have consequence on my image.
I have this weird conspiracy in my brain that big IT companies are just fronts for what the CIA/NSA/governments need to do to do their job.
I don't think those companies really care about getting your data, but government do, because governments saw and know that the internet is not something they directly control. Information is power, and it flows beyond the government's reach and proper authority. I don't really understand how those companies work so hard at great extents to get that data at the limit of the law or morality. I don't see how it's not the government doing this for security or economic reasons.
Liberty and freedom of speech are important, but until the internet, governments were able to have their eyes on sensitive tools. Now citizens have access to technologies that can do a lot of things at the speed of light, so in a way, governments are losing control, so it's natural that governments are trying to get back the control they lost.
Of course politically it's not going to please everyone, but I think that the golden age of information sharing is over.
The problem is that escaping data collection will often be seen as ambiguous, politicized or very complicated, so you can't even justify it morally, you have to consent. I'm a little worried because because at some point you could have cyber activists that could resort to "cyber-terrorism" to attack companies that do data collection, and show it to the public. Sending users their own data would be one way to stain the image of those companies. Ironically, terrorism justified data collection.
I don't think people realize how they are controlling their flow of thought and what they say when they know it can be heard. How many times I thought about what I was writing, knowing its trace could land somewhere that could have consequence on my image.