Yes, I regularly use unusual spellings, different postal addresses, pseudonyms, CC's, the whole nine yards.
OP here: This is what the article in Public Books is all about. A lot of the "benefits" the Park presents are made up, manufactured conveniences, accompanied by manufactured inconveniences that make it hard for others…
It's not a dealbreaker for practical reasons, it's for moral ones. I don't think they should even ask for or collect that data, given the ability to de-anonymize that the additional information provides them. They don't…
OP here: For context, the cash is to stop corporate databases from knowing I have children. It's not for obfuscating everything. https://www.optoutproject.net/how-to-keep-your-pregnancy-pri...
OP here. My kids know "Mommy doesn't like Google." If we were totally restrictive and opaque about it, it might feel like living in a cult. But I use data privacy techniques to teach our kids about how systems work,…
It's mom who's obsessed. Dad just enjoyed the experience ;)
Thanks! You totally grokked what I'm doing with this--I appreciate it! Yes I do think a lot about the effectiveness of personal responsibility, and its limits. Certainly I could request my logs and data from every…
Not annoyed. Spouse is fully on board. Kids think it's fun, especially as we use data privacy to explain how systems work under the hood. Extended family is supportive. Maybe people are surprised to hear that, but…
Original author here: My phone runs Sailfish, a mobile Linux OS (Red Hat).
I agree that, for the premium price, we should get some data privacy in return!
As long as it's not that senator who asked Zuckerberg to "shut down finsta"... ;)
Original author here. I'm also in favor of more writing about privacy motivation, even if editors don't always want that all in the text they publish. I'm writing more about it at The Opt Out Project in addition to…
(Original author here). Yes I am aware of the identifiers that are sold through a third party data provider. Reading further, I also note that I decided not to care if Disneyland knows that I went, it was more about…
I'm the author of the original post. I'm happy to answer questions in thread.
Yes, I regularly use unusual spellings, different postal addresses, pseudonyms, CC's, the whole nine yards.
OP here: This is what the article in Public Books is all about. A lot of the "benefits" the Park presents are made up, manufactured conveniences, accompanied by manufactured inconveniences that make it hard for others…
It's not a dealbreaker for practical reasons, it's for moral ones. I don't think they should even ask for or collect that data, given the ability to de-anonymize that the additional information provides them. They don't…
OP here: For context, the cash is to stop corporate databases from knowing I have children. It's not for obfuscating everything. https://www.optoutproject.net/how-to-keep-your-pregnancy-pri...
OP here. My kids know "Mommy doesn't like Google." If we were totally restrictive and opaque about it, it might feel like living in a cult. But I use data privacy techniques to teach our kids about how systems work,…
It's mom who's obsessed. Dad just enjoyed the experience ;)
Thanks! You totally grokked what I'm doing with this--I appreciate it! Yes I do think a lot about the effectiveness of personal responsibility, and its limits. Certainly I could request my logs and data from every…
Not annoyed. Spouse is fully on board. Kids think it's fun, especially as we use data privacy to explain how systems work under the hood. Extended family is supportive. Maybe people are surprised to hear that, but…
Original author here: My phone runs Sailfish, a mobile Linux OS (Red Hat).
I agree that, for the premium price, we should get some data privacy in return!
As long as it's not that senator who asked Zuckerberg to "shut down finsta"... ;)
Original author here. I'm also in favor of more writing about privacy motivation, even if editors don't always want that all in the text they publish. I'm writing more about it at The Opt Out Project in addition to…
(Original author here). Yes I am aware of the identifiers that are sold through a third party data provider. Reading further, I also note that I decided not to care if Disneyland knows that I went, it was more about…
I'm the author of the original post. I'm happy to answer questions in thread.