Comment by trelane

2 years ago

I have to wonder if AI is going to cause more interest in user privacy. It's been an issue with ad business models and AFAICT Microsoft also reserves the right to use your personal info to "improve and develop [their] products."[1]

[1] https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

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trelane

freedomben 2 years ago

Doubtful. As a privacy advocate of 15+ years, pretty much nobody cares about privacy. When you describe to them in detail how invasive their Amazon products and twitter/facebook are, they get very uncomfortable and don't like it, but they just continue to buy/use those products so it really doesn't matter. I've had people (not on HN but fairly tech literate) say they use Apple for privacy reasons but then had major misunderstandings about that (i.e. they assumed that an app on the app store must be privacy respecting because Apple reviews them, or that Apple themselves don't collect lots of first-party data, etc). So I doubt AI is going to make a big difference.