If you could buy online without compromising everything about yourself, would you opt for it? If there was an acceptable data currency to spring into the data business, instead of yourself, would you work toward trading on the alternative currency? Choice and economic alternatives can also be invented for mutual benefit of companies and consumers. It could all work out if we spent more time and energy on how to give privacy choice a chance.
Read moreThe Assertive Privacy Consumer: Know your opposition
Just like every other conflict, in user privacy conflicts you have to identify and respect your opponents. Sometimes your opponents are only situational. They have one goal in mind: win in the moment. In other cases, your opponents are predatory. They want to deleverage your rights so they have unlimited access and power over even the smallest of your affairs.
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