Privacy

37724 readers

642 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

194

Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more people to play? (www.rebeltechalliance.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

78 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This is an open question on how to get the masses to care...

Unfortunately, if other people don't protect their privacy it affects those who do, because we're all connected (e.g. other family members, friends). So it presents a problem of how do you get people who don't care, to care?

I started the Rebel Tech Alliance nonprofit to try to help with this, but we're still really struggling to convert people who have never thought about this.

(BTW you might need to refresh our website a few times to get it to load - no idea why... It does have an SSL cert!)

So I hope we can have a useful discussion here - privacy is a team sport, how do we get more people to play?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I call them normies not because I look down upon them or I hate them I do that because whenever I educate them to use privacy oriented services they mock me saying "you are crazy" "you aren't president" "nobody cares about your data" yada yada yada...

It makes me frustrated :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Framing "them" as fundamentally different reinforces the mental barrier that your requirements and their requirements are different. Avoid it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

You'd better believe marketing execs and specialists in branding will divide and conquer market segments of apathetic typical people.

Addicts in recover programs can call the general population of non-addicts 'normies'; people that have been marginalized for neurodivergent thinking often call the mainstream population of neurotypicals 'normies' etc.

Gatekeeping by commonly accepted language across diverse circles only serves for your own purity testing instead of focusing on the core issue of how to sell people on exercising their own basic self-interest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The problem is their arguments are not wrong. Nobody does care about your data. Which makes it so hard to convince people about the dangerous.