A normal person’s reaction, as I found out yesterday, to the idea that Google’s services are tracking all your usage, invading your privacy, and fingerprinting your specific browser is “well, I’m not doing anything weird, and if I was I’d me disguising that. All my info is already out there anyway so I don’t care anymore.” Which is a weird, exhausted perspective to me.
“It’s the tradeoff we get for using google.”
They agreed that Google’s pretty creepy, but seemed unconcerned. I’m still having trouble wrapping my head around this perspective.
@roguecnidarian My take is that, over the years, people have been trained to give very intimate data over to third parties. So they tend not to consider Google having home address, phone, bank and CC info, and an entire model of purchasing habits built around them as especially notable...
... until a breach happens or behavioral inferences are shown directly.
Then it’s very eye-opening when a subsequent data audit happens.
(FD: I work for a competitor, opinions my own, etc etc.)
@roguecnidarian IOW: a majority of users are not used to thinking about personal opsec. I think that’s in the process of changing, though.