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Originally Posted by MGlitch
[...] What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, and if you insist on holding your right to choose to give your information away to certain businesses so to should others be free to do so without you decrying their choices and demeaning them.
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You are quite right that everyone is free to to share their data with whoever they want. Even if the market was different this basic fact would remain true.
And whatever I said or implied about giving up, JSWolf's earlier post suggesting it is "no win" is probably an accurate conclusion. The market has spoken, the business models have formed and been proven successful. Arguments about right or wrong or necessity are largely just noise around this central fact.
Despite that, I remain confident we could have pretty much the same level of useful technological innovation without requiring the loss of privacy. (
Note that privacy is about control, merely sharing the data with a particular entity is not necessarily loss of privacy, losing control of the data is.) There are solutions out there that prove users can retain control in at least some contexts, which is why I made the earlier comments about people being fooled into thinking they have no choice. Some choices exist, and if the incentives existed there would be more, but so far the market does not favour them.
About the only other thing that might adjust the balance now would be legislation.