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Millennials Willing To Share Personal Data — For a Price
jfruh writes "The rap on the under-30 crowd is that they don't care anywhere near as much about online privacy as their elders — but that's not quite true. According to a recent study by USC's Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, millennials are just as concerned about the use of their personal data online as their elders. The difference arises when it comes to why they share that data: older users share with someone they trust, while millennials share when they perceive that there's something in it for them."
Exactly. Access to a service or a social network is not "something in it for them". In fact, even if someone is willing to pay for your data, you shouldn't be willing to do that and it's hard to even accept that as "something in it for them".
Worse, this article says they're smarter about it , yet the reasons they give for sharing information by these twits are "for coupons and local deals" and "in exchange for targeted advertising" those two things are the same thing, obviously) and... Well, actually, those are the only reasons the article gives. What as shitty, meaningless, irrelevant article. It's literally just an infographic full of information from which the author has derived the most absurd conclusion.
"Teens are smarter about privacy, because they don't care about their privacy as long as it's being used for something in their benifit... like advertise to them".
I give up. Fuck it.
I remember the article a few years ago where high school students took a poll which showed they generally feel there is too much free speech, press should be regulated by government, etc. Then, you have many going around saying things like "well, we have to give up some liberties for safety". And . . . well, none of this should surprise any of us.
We are destined to lose our freedom and our civil liberties. It is unavoidable. Every generation of children are raised in a society just a little less free than the prior one. For instance, young adults in 2013 don't know of a world without a TSA or a world where you didn't have to show your ID before boarding a domestic flight or a world where they weren't fear-mongered with threats of terror every single day. The things that have occurred in the last twenty years that repulse us about infringements on every citizen's rights are things which are just "every day life" and "normal" for young adults, today. Kids born today will know nothing of a world when there weren't cameras constantly monitoring and archiving their every move or drones in every city minding the behavior of citizens.