[LINK] Another phone tracking story

[Jan Whitaker]

At 12:43 PM 25/04/2011, Steven Clark wrote:

>we don't get to choose between privacy and convenience. convenience is
>what is on offer, privacy is an afterthought - and increasingly one
>that's more of a marketing positional 'configuration option' than a
>serious architectural - more symbolic than substantial.
>
>casting privacy as some kind of 'consumer choice' issue about 'sharing
>data' sidelines privacy as something that only prudes and paranoids
>bleat about ... there is far, far too much money to be 'made' through
>aggregation and manipulation of data about 'consumers' for any serious
>corporation to blithely pass over.

I can't put my finger on what triggered this thought, but doesn't 
this remind you of the tobacco company executives standing before 
various legislatures and saying tobacco doesn't cause cancer? That 
smokers should be given a choice? All that is despite the fact of the 
additives they put into their products to make them even more 
addictive. Does that equate to 'convenience'?

Jan



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