I can't believe you'd posit that after what we've learned in the last three years. What Amazon has, the government has. That's not counting "trusted partners" who you've never dealt with.
You know what's tiresome? People tauting trivial conveniences with the wild abandon of a schoolgirl, while ignoring the very real drawbacks and elimination of traditional rights for a penny or two of hd space.
I do want to also say I've generally appreciated your comments and approach because it is refreshing when someone is so thoroughly invested in privacy.
I don't meant to say it is a non-issue to me. Rather, I don't put in the hands of these entities what I want to keep from the government. It's pretty simple. I use some privacy tactics for when I think it matters, but the day to day mundane stuff, I don't care if the NSA knows (and if the NSA REALLY wanted to know, hiding behind TOR and the like isn't any guarantee of privacy - crafty bastards, that lot). And again with the NSA, everything is still algorithms, not hand-picked, unless something triggers and you get flagged for inspection (I assume, but I may be wrong - but there's too much for them to care about all the crap they get, it must only be the ones who deserve attention that they take a closer look at).
I only traded limited rights for convenience, and not directly to the government. But frankly, there's going to reach a point in time where it doesn't matter, the government, illegally or unethically or some other shifty way about it, will know everything about every citizen. Not tomorrow, not next year, but in a few decades at most, first world countries won't have a true right to privacy. On the face of things, and in public admission, sure, but the NSA and similar bodies will always do what they can to skirt the laws so they can maintain an edge, and to maintain that edge, they'll need to know everything. I'd fight that too, but I see it as inevitable, like Minority Report and related. There's not much to do but absolute revolt. Digital fights and stubbornness aren't going to accomplish anything; an absolute overthrow is the only way, I suspect, to prevent what I fear is inevitable.
That said, again, I know there's the likelihood that the NSA has what is in Amazon's databases, and Google's as well, but I'm not really concerned because I enjoy the benefits of those services and limit what I make available to them. What I care about keeping secret, I make that effort.
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