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The Greatest Enemy of Privacy (blog.thenewoil.org)

submitted 8 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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There are many enemies of privacy. There are politicians claiming the (at best) misguided pretense of “protecting the children,” intellig...

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[–] Tempo@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's no money in privacy.

Harvesting and selling personal information is practically a continual source of funds with little to no cost. Why spend time and money developing a product with all the data harvesting elements stripped out to appeals to maybe 5-10% of the market?

[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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