>Because the instances of tangible harm coming to someone from data leaked by Facebook et. al. are few and far between.
Not sure what makes you think this considering the fact that lately there has been at least one data leak outrage story every week from Facebook alone.
>I think it's intellectually lazy to think that people disagree with you because they don't have all the facts. Most people are aware with the amount of data collected on them. They are somewhat bothered by it, but not bothered enough to make a lot of changes.
I appreciate you calling out my platitude but it is funny that you decided to answer with one equally lazy. How do you know?
In my experience most younger people are aware, but for people of my parents generation this stuff is a complete mystery.
Thats exactly my point though - no one will ever read the terms. You shouldn't have to dig through x pages of legalese to know what you are agreeing to within an app.
All i'm saying is that if what you were agreeing to was made to be as apparent as it is easy to confirm we might see a shift in user behaviour.
The reason they care about "catastrophic and specific leaks or revelations based on their own private data" is because that is the only time the average user notices how much information they cede to these platforms.
If the general public truly understood how much information they give up and how valuable that information is, people would begin to take these things more seriously.
Users are conditioned to allow access to GPS and Camera without thinking for the sake of using specific features of an app. Combine that with maliciously impenetrable ToS and its hardly surprising that people give away their information so freely.
Not sure what makes you think this considering the fact that lately there has been at least one data leak outrage story every week from Facebook alone.
>I think it's intellectually lazy to think that people disagree with you because they don't have all the facts. Most people are aware with the amount of data collected on them. They are somewhat bothered by it, but not bothered enough to make a lot of changes.
I appreciate you calling out my platitude but it is funny that you decided to answer with one equally lazy. How do you know? In my experience most younger people are aware, but for people of my parents generation this stuff is a complete mystery.