Most of the time the reason that people want to be private is to stop mainstream tech companies from gathering their data to use for targeted ads. But I’m kind of cuirous to see what are others motives for wanting to be private online.
Most of the time the reason that people want to be private is to stop mainstream tech companies from gathering their data to use for targeted ads. But I’m kind of cuirous to see what are others motives for wanting to be private online.
Let’s say 10,000 facts are known about each individual in 98% of the population (thanks to surveillance capitalism) and only 20 facts are known about the other 2%.
Maybe in the future the 2% people can choose to sell facts about themselves for $200 each that would be; 9,800 facts * $200= $1,960,000
For me it’s a combination of not having big corporates suck this info up for free as well as just simply we don’t know how this data will be used against us in the future, and I don’t want to give it up until at least I know more about what its worth.
Edit:spelling
if 98% of the population is known… then the remaining 2% are easy to predict based on similar profiles.