I’d pay $20 to get my privacy back for the rest of my life.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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Here's $40. Two privacies, please!
I think the headline is poorly worded. Apple paid $20 a person to not have to respect their privacy. They did that because our lack of privacy is worth much more than $20 to them.
It's per year probably.
Again, still not a lot, but like someone told me once: It's not about the exact value but the overall amount.
$20 per person, multiplied by 1,000,000 users and now that's $20 million.
Facebook definitely has more than 1M users. Wham bam, techno monopoly mam.
So why is no one asking me for $50 to leave me alone forever? Come one, bring it.
Mind boggling. I've been in the inside of big tech. Idk if my company was better, or the systems were better exposed to me than others within the company, or something else entirely. But this would've gotten me fired, and a review of the processes in place to ensure that information like that isn't recorded, and is discarded otherwise.
I'm not saying they're great. I'm saying they're great at convincing themselves that they do respect privacy (in no small part out of fear of regulation IMO). Something like accidentally recording and exposing intimate moments like this is just too on the nose for the people who want to believe they're the good guys.