I was recently speaking with a friend whose company buys data from Google for targeted marketing. He complained about the work they had to do to 'match up' the anonymized data to real people. I explained how I degoogled which was a new concept to him. He then said the famous words, "I have nothing to hide." It baffles me how he de-anonymizes personal data and doesn't understand the problem. It seems to be some kind of cognitive dissonance for marketing people?
@Wetrix I admittedly have also been a useful idiot in the past.
@krock you're smart enough to be here though 😎👌🏻
@krock whenever people say they have “nothing to hide” it makes me wonder if they shit with the bathroom door open in public or when guests are over at their house, or if they lock their front doors or even bother having a front door at all. I mean, if you have “nothing to hide”… right?
@thedeltaflyer Or you could just say, "Can I take a video of you taking a shit with the wiping and all?" 🤣 There are no shortage of obvious arguments to this stupid statement, but they are better than me just calling people naive.
@krock right? “Oh if you have nothing to hide then that means I can read through your diary, right?” Or “if you have nothing to hide, can I read all your texts on your phone right this second?” Most would object to any of those questions - so why not have the same reaction to your data being sucked up by Google, etc. or when you willingly give it to them?
@thedeltaflyer How about this new product idea I am working on? https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/VFlnpy33xgum5N01Egq2zBa665KtNJ6SCXs6qkJIRFM/
@krock 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am laughing but tbh I’m sure someone out there is legit trying to make something like this a reality to market to big pharma and consumers - “no need for invasive colonoscopies! No need to mail your stool sample in a box to a lab! Want to know what triggered your IBS last night?” etc
@krock he's the perfect employee for Google & companies like his. Dumb and ignorant.