Two kinds of privacy: 1. what you shop/listen/google/like, the sort Facebook collects and monetizes. 2. your bank accounts, private emails, financial apps, medical records. The kind that we now put on our iPhone and is currently safeguarded. (2) is what is at risk here.
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Replying to @migueldeicaza
For most people the private emails in (2) are in the hands of the company mentioned in (1)
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Replying to @Pinboard
Right. The first one, people are willing to part ways easily "Don't care if Google/Facebook know that I eat Cheerios". The second one is sacrosant
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Replying to @migueldeicaza
I'm pushing back not to be a pest, but because your (2) is "email plus the stuff actually protected by privacy law".
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Replying to @Pinboard
I don’t follow. What I am trying to say here is that when we say “privacy” some people might think about the former, and some about the latter.
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Replying to @migueldeicaza @Pinboard
So when I want my OS to protect my privacy, it is cool that it can block some cookies from Facebook. But my main interest is not having my OAuth tokens stolen.
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My argument is the Bulgakov argument that there are not two kinds of privacy. There is just the one.pic.twitter.com/xJttCFg1xf
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