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Opinion | Be Paranoid About Privacy (Published 2019)
We need to take back our privacy from tech companies — even if that means sacrificing convenience.
Be Paranoid About Privacy
New York Times, Dec. 24, 2019
We need to take back our privacy from tech companies — even if that means sacrificing convenience.
This week, Google Maps could not find me, and it seemed really pissed off.
I switched all of the location-access buttons on my iPhone from “While Using the App” to “Ask Next Time,” causing my most useful app to launch a series of increasingly desperate pop-up entreaties, begging me to make my life easier by letting it automatically locate me (rather than giving it access to my location only when I type in where I am and where I want to go).
I cannot imagine its stalker rage if I had clicked “Never” allow the app to track my location.
Tough luck, Google Maps. Because, as 2019 ends, I am breaking up with opt-in by taking up a well-worn Silicon Valley bromide as my digital mantra: Only the paranoid survive.
As my buddy Oldschool says...
"Stay Paranoid My Friends, 'Safe' is not Good Enough Anymore."
Well.... he doesn't say exactly that...
And what fun is 'safe' --- when you can get all tweaked up on paranoid...
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