On the question of privacy, so not sure where it fits into our categories so far, but I think raises an interesting question about relationships.The article discusses how we often have no idea how much data we are giving away about ourselves, especially in social media, and how much this data is worth to companies. I link it to relationships because I think that things we once would only have shared in close relationships we are now happy to give to almost anyone. Often this data is shared without a true judgment e.g. do I really want social media sites to be able to use the photos I upload for their own purposes?
https://www.cable.co.uk/features/feature-complex-issues-online-data-security-future/
The line about "if the service is free then you’re the product" is striking.
ReplyDeleteFor example, about 90% of the revenues of Mozilla (the people who make Firefox) in 2012 and 2013 came from a royalty payment of roughly $300 million from Google in return for making Google the default search engine on the Firefox browser.
See
https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Financials_2013.pdf
and
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-and-innovation-on-the-web/