Re: [projectvrm] Privacy is SO overrated - Scoble

[Don Marti < >]

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 quotation of Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 06:55:14AM +1000:

> The awful thing about the anti privacy brigade is that they seek to draw 
> the line for everyone else.  That's just not fair. 

another one...

  Privacy is Dead
  http://stratechery.com/2014/privacy-dead/

  "The net result is an iron circle in which
  advertisers pay free apps and sites, who in turn
  provide significant benefit to consumers, who
  in exchange surrender targeting info about their
  demographics and preferences:

  You cannot take away any one of these components
  without taking away all of them. Unless we as a
  society are willing to give up all of the benefits
  provided by search, social networks, and the free
  dissemination of information, then we will give up
  our privacy."

It's hard to connect turning up the creepy to turning
up the value of ad-supported content, though.  As a
user, the more that I'm able to increase the cost
of surveilling me, the more cost-effective it is
to reach me by spending money on content instead.
The better that surveillance gets, the easier to
answer the question "what's the cheapiest, crappiest
content he would ever actually read?"

-- 
Don Marti                    
http://zgp.org/~dmarti/