Privacy – whatever.

Privacy. Companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, etc… all tell us how much they value and care about our privacy. Yet the truth is revealed in an endless serried of breaches, hacks, and outright lies presented to us. The end results are nearly always the same. Sometimes there’s a vague, half-apology, maybe some convoluted and obfuscated explanation coupled with justifications for feeble security practices. The EU may make some sort of fuss and fine companies, or there’s some showboat “hearing” in Washington D.C. On and on it goes.

We’ve been told that “privacy” no longer exists, or at least that it doesn’t mean what we think it does. We’ve been told all our data being swept up, logged, and stored is all just “normal.” If we’re led to believe our data is only being used in “aggregated” form, somehow our privacy is ensured – which, of course, it is most certainly not.