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psychology  ·  3189 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The cross-cultural psychology of Internet privacy concern

    In Europe, they have laws protecting internet privacy, and over here they're being taken away.

I feel like American's level of trust is the reason we won't see a significant level of change in the NSA's data mining protocols for a long time. Most people don't understand how damaging some of the information the government is collecting on them can be if used for the wrong reasons. They assume they don't have anything to hide from the government because they haven't done anything wrong.





cvben  ·  3189 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Couple of thoughts:

1) There is quite a bit of money to be made from information so I think companies have found ways to sell its collection as a service to the consumer.

2) When a corporation or other business service is doing something of a slimy nature they often hide deep within the cryptic labyrinth of legal jargon, because they know the average consumer would rather just "trust them on it" than read it and perhaps seek professional interpretation of it.

I also think at a certain point people don't know or don't want to know how little privacy they have.