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✔️ If you're worried about being tracked online you might be stressing over the wrong things. I'll describe the two kinds of privacy, why companies don't really care about you as a person, and the simple choices that protect you today and years from now.
✔️ Privacy matters
There are two types of privacy: the privacy expected of the services we use, and the privacy we choose. Software and online services have the ability to collect massive amounts of data from their users, but they look at the behavior of crowds, not individuals. Your own choices have more impact on your personal privacy, now and in the future.
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Chapters
0:00 You're not that interesting
0:42 Two kinds of privacy
1:44 Privacy, policies, and Big Brother
2:44 The (poor) choices we make
3:32 You’re just not that interesting
4:55 You might be interesting some day...
6:26 It’s all so scary!
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✔️ If you're worried about being tracked online you might be stressing over the wrong things. I'll describe the two kinds of privacy, why companies don't really care about you as a person, and the simple choices that protect you today and years from now.
✔️ Privacy matters
There are two types of privacy: the privacy expected of the services we use, and the privacy we choose. Software and online services have the ability to collect massive amounts of data from their users, but they look at the behavior of crowds, not individuals. Your own choices have more impact on your personal privacy, now and in the future.
Updates, related links, and more discussion: askleo.com/22674
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✅ Watch next ▶ Recognizing and Avoiding Dark Patterns ▶ youtu.be/S3HSP1U74zI
Chapters
0:00 You're not that interesting
0:42 Two kinds of privacy
1:44 Privacy, policies, and Big Brother
2:44 The (poor) choices we make
3:32 You’re just not that interesting
4:55 You might be interesting some day...
6:26 It’s all so scary!
❤️ My best articles: go.askleo.com/best
❤️ My Most Important Article: go.askleo.com/number1
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