Comment by zadler
5 hours ago
What kind of political / economic system would make user privacy a priority? I'm guessing not finance capital neoliberalism...
5 hours ago
What kind of political / economic system would make user privacy a priority? I'm guessing not finance capital neoliberalism...
Shift liability to those who store and sell data. They get full economic responsibility for fallout of breaches of data that is retained past the time necessary to complete the transactions. If they sell the data then they hold liability for all breaches of downstream parties as well. Require them to carry insurance against breaches.
It would completely destroy the data brokers and targeted ad industry but the world would be a better place as a result. Also not going to happen but I can dream.
"As compensation for leaking your personal data, best I can do is...one year of Equifax monitoring."
Finance follows the risks and the users.
We'll probably never convince end-users to "vote with their feet" and use Privacy-focused products. But we can absolutely, through legislation or just precedent, raise the Risk profile until it's better to leave the ad revenue on the table and run a private service.
Finance follows money.
Turns out that money never was a good proxy for the public good, or even the ‘good’ of paying users. The goal has never been maximizing UX, the goal always was squeezing profits.
End-users not voting with their feet is misrepresenting the issue, it’s a symptom of end-users being actively lied to during campaigns (I think the euphemism for that is “lobby groups”).
Why? Because politicians care about being re-elected and their approval rates, and finance has proved to be an unnaturally large factor in that equation.
Who is this “we” you are talking about? Are you a lawmaker? Because if you aren’t, the group of people who can do what you describe doesn’t include you.
We've already moved away from sites storing credit card information, because the risk of storing it yourself is simply too high. We need to make the stakes higher for other personal information.
Gotta be able to stop fraudulent payments while maintaining privacy before ecommerce would have any interest in adopting a more private system.
I've worked at plenty of companies that have no interest in tracking their customers but still need to be able to pin IDs to credit cards, etc. to have any hope of stopping mountains of fraud.