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Wonder how long it will take for the "Average Joe" to care about these things (feddit.nu)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 3 points 3 years ago

Women I knew started to care when I showed them articles about how google and meta knew their menstrual cycles, and reported on searches about abortions to law emfprcemt

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    possibly never going to happen

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  • [+] -7 points 3 years ago

    Unless there's a massive data breach which affects them personally - though not sure how that would be.

    The only way to go may be forcing the mega-terch companies to respect user rights, which you'd think would be a joke - and for google/facebook/microsoft that is a joke, though it is interesting that apple introduced that "opt in app do-not-track" thing last year, where facebook shat it's pants.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    People literally don't care about their privacy. Anything that is raised regarding tracking is classified as being paranoid and you become a weirdo.

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I'm an average Joe and try to minimize my digital footprint as much as convenience allows, but keep seeing people say that this is paranoia and doesn't matter.

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Until there's a massive leak of credit card data from a single incident, nothing will change.

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Not until there is a massive data breach that leads to very serious and obvious real world consequences

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