You already have zero privacy anyway. Get over it. — Scott G. McNealy
The quote above is from 1999…
Most of us use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp, have iPhones, Galaxys, search on Google, we buy things online, subscribe to newsletters, allow apps to access third party websites, and so on.
Simply visiting a webpage of any kind tracks some kind of information about you.
The companies behind all the products and services have terms and conditions. What do you do, if you want to you use their products and services?
Press the accept button!
Because you have not enough time to read the content.
The fact is, the moment you go online even if you have no account on Facebook, Twitter, etc. The internet starts to collect data about you.
In one of my last posts I mentioned that one of Snapchat reasons of success is privacy. The same day they published new terms and conditions.
In short, the new license allows Snapchat broader use of your photos and videos for marketing campaigns, research purposes as well as providing them to “business partners” for further use. So also here privacy is gone.
What about apps like Telegram with end-to-end encryption as one of its primary features. It may not be as secure as users might think.
What about the “private” mode in your browsers ? Read this.
What about DuckDuckGo — The search engine that doesn’t track you? Maybe thats true, but after you click on a link in your search results, it will refer you to a site with sharing buttons.
What about the Tor Browser — Protect your privacy. Defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis? Read this.
I think privacy is dead actually think it doesn’t matter at all. We just went through the biggest privacy issue in american history and nobody gives a fuck. Right, and who cares. — Gary Vaynerchuk
This brings me to YOLO — You Only Live Once. It was popularized by the 2011 song “The Motto” by Drake.
We are living in the Digital Age, the 21st century. The message of “YOLO” embodies the carefree attitude of no acknowledgement of the future, and doing only what feels good now. So like mentioned in Gary Vaynerchuk’s sentence — “… and who cares …”.
Someone told me
If you want your privacy back, you must build a new Internet
Maybe someone will do…. But thats another topic.
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