but I'm only going to point out that the "De-Googling" trend doesn't really have anything to do with the right to be forgotten. It has more to do with enshittification - Google shutting down services, making their current services harder to use, charging money for what used to be free services, charging more money for already paid services, adding ads, etc etc. Basically people finding alternative software to Google because Google's practices have become increasingly volatile and their services less and less reliable.
Ohhhhh that de-Googling. Yeah, I've done a bit of that, disabled the Google app on my phone entirely since Firefox does its job better, but I'm on Android and doing all that setup every time I get a new phone is just a headache.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To hear people on the privacy subreddits and even the privacy Lemmy communities tell it, it’s absolutely about the data these companies are collecting. I’ll grant you it’s about what the companies are perceived to be doing with the data the collect (serving ads), but I don’t think I personally ever made the point that op did (that it was about right to be forgotten).
Either way, I think op may have missed my point. As technology evolves people will find new ways to abuse it. And there’s a level of privacy people should have the expectation of, and our privacy laws don’t do enough as it is. Op is really suggesting that we further violate everyone’s privacy in the name of protecting them and they don’t want to hear that it’s a bad idea or one where we would have to put our trust in a company or companies to apply this monitoring.
They also don’t seem to want to hear about the burn out rate of people tasked with moderating content and validating that that content is against TOS or breaks the law. Having humans trawl communities or even just messaging app text data for CP and scams is bound to have a detrimental effect.
danhakimi@kbin.social 11 months ago
Sure. But I can't blame them for collecting data that I literally decide to send them for no reason but my own, I can only blame them for using that data in a shitty way.
If I post something on Instagram, I know that they're collecting the photo I post, that's how posting works, that's not the issue. The issue comes if they try scanning peoples' faces to invade their privacy, or build an advertising profile about me. Sending unencrypted chat messages is not that different.
If I download Whatsapp, and I enable the contacts permission, and it uploads all of the Contacts data on my phone, that's super not okay, because I never wanted to give them that data in the first place, they just jacked it.(I disable contacts permission for whatsapp on my phone, but most users would never know that data gets uploaded to begin with.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Users are responsible for the conduct and permissions they give to companies. Absolving them of that responsibility doesn’t make sense ethically or legally. We can’t just say “they didn’t know because WhatsApp didn’t tell them”. That’s not really an accurate statement. They more than likely agreed to use the app and in exchange they would receive free use and WhatsApp would receive that data. But they more than likely didn’t read the agreement before agreeing. That’s on them.
danhakimi@kbin.social 11 months ago
But not in the same way that it's on them if they don't know that when they post a post to facebook, facebook has the post.