The system will process your data (the real and the false) just fine and keep right on running. You can't break down the system by messing with the specifics in your dossier. The fake location data you sent might get you arrested by police if you were one of only a few people logged within a 2 mile radius of a crime. You could get turned down for a job because your fake bot was a little too interested in drug/alcohol related websites, or maybe you'll be charged more or denied healthcare coverage because your bot made it appear that you were living an unhealthy lifestyle. Maybe if you could find a way to fill their logs with the kinds of data that actually matter (fake your precise GPS location, fake contacts/friends/relatives with detailed fake histories and fake contacts of their own, fake credit card statements showing fake purchase history, etc) it might be more worthwhile, but you'd still be taking a chance because ultimately your life is going to be changed because of what ends up in the logs being collected. I'm not convinced that anyone collecting your data cares about how accurate it is, and it's clear that the people using that data against you don't care all that much either. Random browsing, random posts/comments, etc. I’m not sure why you seem so convinced that the only two valid positions are “silently embrace anything they do” and “cut yourself off entirely”. And others might shrug their shoulders and accept it anyway. Some might choose to leave the service others might want to spread awareness about the issue, or call for regulation. In reality it’s totally fine to think that a service you use is doing something wrong, to complain about them doing it, and to want them to stop. There are lots of conflicting priorities and issues that can come up when trying to think about the costs of being a users of a particular platform. Or if you have a pension fund, it almost certainly invests in Meta. Maybe WhatsApp is essential for your work, or for a community organisation you are part of. Or maybe cutting yourself off from Facebook would mean cutting yourself off from family or friends. I’m sure you appreciate that the reality is a bit more complex than that, for lots of reasons.įor example, Facebook also abuses the privacy of people who aren’t customers (or more accurately, users). There's an entire multi-billion dollar a year industry around buying and selling the most mundane aspects of your life for this reason.Įvery scrap of data that is taken from you can be leveraged against you or sold to someone else on the promise that it could be. It's sold and resold over and over, to data brokers, but also to governments (including US companies selling that data to the US government). It's used to decide if you will be offered a job, or get an apartment. It's being used to manipulate you and to shape your views. You don't know it's because they saw you spent too much at bars or that people in your zip code increased their spending on fast food over the last 6 months.Įveryone wants their hands on your data to abuse in any way they can to give them an advantage over you. It's used to set you how much you pay for things like health insurance. You aren't told you were bumped to the bottom of the queue to make room for people with a better "Consumer Score", you're just left waiting. Companies have been seen using this data to decide how long to keep people on hold. A company might tell you their prices, services, or return policies are on thing, but tell the next person who walks in something much more favorable. The data being collected by companies and sold by data brokers are used for things like determining how much money you pay for something vs your neighbor. There are countless ways this data is used to extract as much money from you as possible. When you burn it all down you’re just left with ashes, and whatever the replacement is almost always cheaper and worse. That’s a false start.ĭon’t throw the baby out with the bath water. There will never be a point where everyone agrees the domestic issues are now “fixed and everything is perfect” so now we can focus on the constant foreign attacks. Geopolitical issues are never a serial process, and they never end. You can both not want foreign meddling and want to improve your local situation at the same time. Having a mistrust of authority in the first place makes this frictionless because it means you trust whatever you read online instead of your local authorities. A huge amount of disinformation came that way, in addition to a domestic audience that was very happy to incorporate it. It’s like saying with all the police shootings, who cares if foreign army’s are going around and shooting people.Ĭovid made plain that psyops work extremely well. First of all, why would you want additional malfeasance? This is indefensible.
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