Selling Surveillance as Convenience
Brief
Selling Surveillance as Convenience
Illustration: Em / Privacy Guides
- Photo: Zeki Okur / Unsplash
Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse . The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails.
As appalling as it is, the truth is the vast majority of software companies do not consider privacy rights and data minimization practices strongly enough, if at all. Most fail to implement the principles of Privacy by Design that should guide development from the start.
Whether this comes from ignorance, incompetence, greed, or malicious intent can be debated.