@websick of course, perfect privacy requires no information to be collected to begin with.
There is no way to square that circle.
But the same meganetworks already collect vast amounts of information on us, and are able to infer that knowledge nevertheless, even if we don’t give it directly.
So it becomes a question of balance: Do we have direct control, or does the network have indirect control?
@websick We tend to be afaird of central authoritarianism, and rightly so. But that’s because we are so familiar with it. What we are not afraid of is the alternative dystopia, because very few can see it yet.
We are so afraid of it infact, that we might be walking into another trap: Because we fear central control so much, the networks even the companies have no control over start to control our lives and politics in ways we could not predict.
@websick The age of perfectly fakeable human relationships is just around the corner.
Strong identification might be a small price to pay for being able to tell apart man and machine, when the machines can tell you for who you are just from the data you leave laying around.
All the #tech parents I know, and I’m one of them, run a very strict control regime on their own kids around #socialmedia and #screentime.
How are the parents who don’t understand how addictive tech runs circles around the #developing#brain of their kids supposed to be up to the task?
Conservative forces like to say it’s up to the parents, but isn’t that more like saying ”survival of the fittest”? I understand it’ll give the kids of already rich a leg up, so maybe it all makes sense.
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