Hi, I recently have started caring less about privacy and fell for convenience as I installed and started using Google and Huawei apps and services on my phone.
I am not sure what shifted my mind, I no longer feel like the companies are up to no good and that they spy on me in particular in harmful way. This might be because my mental illness has gotten better, which made me paranoid with some other things too.
Wanted to hear your thoughts regarding this decision and privacy, free software and mass surveillance. Am I being a fool “giving up” ? I know its important that journalists and politicians have privacy, but does it matter to me that I’m no longer sure of.
Yeah, that seems mostly fine then. Do what is best for your mental health :)
Just try to stay out of the typical vendor lock in traps and keep in mind that some data seems irrelevant individually, but can be used is unexpected ways in aggregate. For example your health data might end up negatively effecting your credit score sometimes in the future. Truth to be told though: having no data available can probably also negatively effect for credit score ;)
Thank you for saying that.