An amazing thing about both Facebook and Google is that employees at these two pillars of the surveillance economy see themselves as champions of privacy. And in a way, they are right—they guard user data as zealously as a dragon guards its gold. https://twitter.com/yonatanzunger/status/1022621096057556992 …
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The upshot is that many people at Google and Facebook devote their careers to protecting privacy, and become angry if you accuse them of not valuing that privacy, while they have built out the greatest system for surveillance and targeted manipulation the world has ever seen.
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These companies hire some of the brightest minds in the world. And bright minds excel at rationalizing. Just like any cryptographer can write a code they cannot break, every programmer can lay out a bulletproof ethical case to themselves why they should work their cushy tech job.
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That business model has also brought the masses access to incredible technology and information for free. We do pay for Gmail and Google Search with our data, but I think the value of that exchange is worth considering, especially for those who couldn't otherwise afford all this
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That is true, and it is part of the argument people who work at these places make.
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