“if we give our data to companies, the wealthy will rule.
If we give our data to governments, we will end up with some form of authoritarianism.
Only if the people keep their data will society be free.
#Privacy matters because it gives power to the people.”
— Carissa Véliz, “Privacy is Power”
@_elena I start to wonder if this is backwards. Big companies will always find a way to get the data if they want it. But it only has value if we allow it to. After all - what do they do with it? Advertise, badly? ... Which we can simply ignore, and let them waste their time and money.