It is not JUST about IME, it is the sum of things profiling and looking over our shoulders.
The argument: "are you using a smartphone? cause then you're already effed" - is a monumental error in judgement imo.
Do I use apps? Yes those that don’t pry. If I facebook on the phone it is in chrome, not the app. Small things you can do to gain a lot, but of course not all. The premise that I should just give up on my rights because “I am allready using a smartphone” is, well, maybe those kind of arguments really serves to put some spotlight on the poster rather than the issue itself. Shrugs.
Everybody has something to hide. Their privacy. There is a reason we have laws for this. On a fundamental level I don’t mind my government spying on me based on the knowledge that the day they come knocking on my door it is cause im cooking a nuclear device in my basement or something similar sinister. The problem here is that I dont trust the goverment with my data. I KNOW they're gonna leak it at some point. My government can have it, google ms facebook and apple can not.
Surveillance and big data. You have got to understand what is going on right now. Companies, google, Microsoft, facebook is listening in on your phone calls, scraping your messaging history, watching you over the cam, listening to your keystrokes, track everything you do online and offline, everything short of ramming a cam up your collective beeps and out the other end JUST to watch what the hell you are watching right now.
For what? To gain a 0.2% edge in serving you an ad up where they allready put a camera.
Now take all this big data and put machine learning on top.
At some point these big data constructs, intelligence factors will reach a point where they know you better than you know yourself. What does that mean? Really? Loss. Off. Freedom. You’re not driving the car anymore buddy. Compare it to the bad girlfriend experience, I bet we have all had it, the one where after the breakup you go “why the hell did I do all that”.
THAT is what you, we all, stand to loose, you ign.. nice and good people