Technology and comfort taking over our lives. Privacy, a thing of the past?

[Mauser]

Data are the new oil. And companies are using that. Sooner or latter mentality about it will change and people will use products and services where they dont give out any data. At this point of time there is lite demand fro that. But that will change. Probably already in this decade. If not this then next. 

I hope you have heard the term "BIG DATA"
There is no privacy left and all our activity online and offline are traced and recorded in the form of data. This data can be used for good things like targeted marketing or it can be misused at any level.

I wouldn't call targeted marketing such a great thing, looking at some products just once will likely keep them in your recommendation list for a long time. The rise of a lot of different VPN companies shows in my opinion that the is a huge demand for privacy in the internet. People are willing to pay for such privacy and the more our data is getting exploited the higher the demand for security from such marketing companies.

[20kevin20]

Pretty much everything snoops on us now.

Only because we let them do so.

I wouldn't call targeted marketing such a great thing, looking at some products just once will likely keep them in your recommendation list for a long time. The rise of a lot of different VPN companies shows in my opinion that the is a huge demand for privacy in the internet. People are willing to pay for such privacy and the more our data is getting exploited the higher the demand for security from such marketing companies.

Wrong education and advertisement about privacy and security speaks words here with the VPN situation. VPNs are sometimes worse than not using anything at all. A lot of them actually keep logs of everything you do.

VPNs are the same way we've been wrongfully taught about internet privacy and anonymity as we'll be taught about CBDCs being better than BTC and privacy coins. The vast majority will fall for it.

[squatz1]

Data are the new oil. And companies are using that. Sooner or latter mentality about it will change and people will use products and services where they dont give out any data. At this point of time there is lite demand fro that. But that will change. Probably already in this decade. If not this then next.  

I hope you have heard the term "BIG DATA"
There is no privacy left and all our activity online and offline are traced and recorded in the form of data. This data can be used for good things like targeted marketing or it can be misused at any level.

I wouldn't call targeted marketing such a great thing, looking at some products just once will likely keep them in your recommendation list for a long time. The rise of a lot of different VPN companies shows in my opinion that the is a huge demand for privacy in the internet. People are willing to pay for such privacy and the more our data is getting exploited the higher the demand for security from such marketing companies.

Not sure when everyone started to believe the VPN company marketing tactics. If you have a paid VPN, yes you have the best shot of having privacy on the internet, but even with that -- if you're just logging into all of the social media accounts / other sites like normal you'll still be tracked by companies. Maybe some guy at the internet Cafe won't be able to steal your bank password, but the big companies of Google, Facebook, Netflix, and so on will still be collecting TONS AND TONS of data on you.

So yeah.

Pretty much everything snoops on us now.

Only because we let them do so.

I wouldn't call targeted marketing such a great thing, looking at some products just once will likely keep them in your recommendation list for a long time. The rise of a lot of different VPN companies shows in my opinion that the is a huge demand for privacy in the internet. People are willing to pay for such privacy and the more our data is getting exploited the higher the demand for security from such marketing companies.

Wrong education and advertisement about privacy and security speaks words here with the VPN situation. VPNs are sometimes worse than not using anything at all. A lot of them actually keep logs of everything you do.

VPNs are the same way we've been wrongfully taught about internet privacy and anonymity as we'll be taught about CBDCs being better than BTC and privacy coins. The vast majority will fall for it.

Agreed. BTC is not better then a coin like Monero for privacy though, and that's just a fact.

[Vilagra]

I really didin't think about this. But yeah no privacy left. On the other hand, why would I be interesting for someone? I'm just an ordinary person living my modest life.

[Natsuu]

I really didin't think about this. But yeah no privacy left. On the other hand, why would I be interesting for someone? I'm just an ordinary person living my modest life.

This topic is not just for someone, but for everyone, including you. Privacy and security are always in par with one another, the moment that you care for life, your friends, and your family, is the moment that you will consider to have a fight when it comes to this matters. As I've said, security and privacy are always intact, they can be either directly proportional, or inversely proportional, but they won't be separated.

I wouldn't call targeted marketing such a great thing, looking at some products just once will likely keep them in your recommendation list for a long time. The rise of a lot of different VPN companies shows in my opinion that the is a huge demand for privacy in the internet. People are willing to pay for such privacy and the more our data is getting exploited the higher the demand for security from such marketing companies.

Wrong education and advertisement about privacy and security speaks words here with the VPN situation. VPNs are sometimes worse than not using anything at all. A lot of them actually keep logs of everything you do.

VPNs are the same way we've been wrongfully taught about internet privacy and anonymity as we'll be taught about CBDCs being better than BTC and privacy coins. The vast majority will fall for it.

This is what I've been actually trying to understand, they can easily breach the your system, cause you are using their software. So internet privacy is somehow, and something you choost to give, and accept. This is also why most of the sites needed you to agree to their license agreement, most with sketchy statements.

On the other hand, I do not personally think that this will cost us something more than what we can risk. It is the same as putting your documents in the cabinet where burglers can steal it personally, the only difference is that we are now storing it on what we call "Private Clouds", and hard drives.

[Wolf333]

In the fight against coronavirus, all means are used - not least modern technology. For example, robots help doctors in infectious diseases wards of hospitals in China. In South Korea, China, Taiwan, and Singapore, mobile apps that track the social contacts of those infected have been instrumental in successfully overcoming the peak of the epidemic.

But what will happen to our personal data, which these robots or applications for smartphones are collecting about us now? Is a balance possible between the effective use of modern technologies in the fight against the virus and at the same time maintaining our right to privacy?
Contact tracing has been used in epidemiology for a long time. In particular, this was also true during the outbreak of SARS in the early 2000s, also caused by the coronavirus. But before this was done "manually": doctors asked patients about their contacts, made lists and monitored the condition of each. Now this is done thanks to signals from mobile phones or from mobile operators, using data via Bluetooth or geolocation.

[squatz1]

Just to step aside in regards to one of the examples you gave - robot lawn mower - is that something that people actually use? May be common in other countries, though I don't really think that's all too common in the US. Further, for that example I don't really know why knowing your garden structure and such would matter, that'll be on town files and such that people can probably access.

The other ones are TOTALLY fair concerns and people have to notice that they're giving all of their data away for no real reason other then -- it's EASIER FOR ME.

Totally not trying to nitpick the list, just curious on if that's common elsewhere in the world.

[Dorodha]

Privacy is very important in the life of every person in the past people had no idea about technology. Sad but true even after ruling the world for so long, people have not done much that we can be proud of. Throughout the time people have learned about the environment around them increased food production, built city-empires and vas vast business fields. But has all this work been able to alleviate the suffering and unrest of the people in the world.