Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on May 26, 2020, 07:28:08 PM

Quote from: bitmover on May 26, 2020, 05:08:36 PM

We give our personal data to banks, financial institutions, department stores such as Walmart, Amazon etc, government institutions and so oneverytime.

Those websites openly sell and share our data with their partners , and nobody cares.

Some of us care. Some of us care enough to not give our personal information to any of these sites.

When i wrote that I remembered we chatted about it a few weeks ago...

But how can you avoid giving information to "any of these sites"?

You are a physician, right? Do you only receive payments in bitcoin? If you have a bank account, you gave your perfonal information to those sites.

If you ever bought something online, you gave your information to those sites.

Do you have a TV in your house? A bed? a refrigerator? Did you carry those itens personally in your back, or did you gave your personal information to those sites so they could deliver it in your house? If they delivered it to you, your situation is worse than ledger customers...

Unless you are an alien or someone like Jameson Loop, all your data is available to those companies.

I read this a few months ago (couldn't find the original, but this one is enough)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/technology/how-to-disappear-surveillance-state.html

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Mr. Lopp estimates that his efforts to disappear have cost him about $30,000.

His measures included renting a fake apartment to receive stuff from walmart, purchasing a tiny second property just for this purpose,Make up a fake name for casual interactions, Get a new phone number (do you have one for more than a year?), Create a new corporate identity, hiring a personal investigator to test his set up and so on.

Do you have children which do not follow all those crazy stuff? Well, so all your privacy concerns are basic useless...

I think we need to separate idealism from reality.