Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 days agoI agree, it shouldn’t, but I but they do. Don’t deceive yourself like that. As I said, some stuff you can (still) keep under wraps, that’s how criminals do it, but connecting the dots they almost invariably get caught, sooner or later.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Right, like Al Capone got caught for tax evasion instead of all the murders and whatnot. If they’re digging, they’ll find it, and they can get almost anything with a warrant.
My point is that governments are generally pretty dysfunctional with information sharing, so even if they have a piece of information, it’s unlikely the appropriate agency has it. They’re getting more and more information the more crap like age verification gets passed, but that doesn’t change the dysfunction between agencies.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I can never disagree with this premise. Government institutions are dysfunctional and broken as hell, regardless of the country we’re referring to. And that alone supports your point, so I have to say, you are right, not one single institution has all our info. The sum of all of them may, however, have it all. Should they choose to organize all our data and have it centralized (say one database for all institutions to feed from) it’s just a matter of merging the data and giving all of them access, even if they use different systems.
That’s where I’m going with this. We do need to obscure as much as we can, but knowing what we’re not able to keep private anymore is pivotal to focus on those things that we can keep under our control.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Agreed.
My point is that it’s not hopeless. We can have reasonable privacy today, and we can change the laws to protect the rest. If we just assume we don’t have privacy, our governments will continue to take.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Then, I apologize, as it seems that I misrepresented your comments. Yes, we can still safeguard our privacy, and we should. This will need a very good chunk of the population making changes, educating children on the dangers of not having privacy, and how the government works for the population, not the other way around. This will require many to get out of their comfort zone, and stop providing data and/money to the corporations that have most individuals convinced that we can’t live without their services, which is completely false. This will be painful, but then again, what revolution isn’t?