Katz is right on in highlighting the expanding corporate domination of the Net. One key question is how to convey this to non-geeks, those to whom the Net is just another home appliance.
I work for a public interest group and tried to convince my fairly paranoid coworkers this weekend that we should be fighting to protect Internet privacy. Even those who think we shouldn't let the government take away our guns asked why we should care if corporations control all our info--what are they going to do, just show me better-targeted ads?
To bring this problem home to the masses, unfortunately, it takes horror stories. I'm newbie enough not to know many. Can anyone help by posting either concrete examples of corporate control of our information harming people (e.g. people being denied health insurance because they buy alcohol, etc.), or similar concrete examples of plausible threats? My campaign awaits.
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Katz is right on in highlighting the expanding corporate domination of the Net. One key question is how to convey this to non-geeks, those to whom the Net is just another home appliance.
I work for a public interest group and tried to convince my fairly paranoid coworkers this weekend that we should be fighting to protect Internet privacy. Even those who think we shouldn't let the government take away our guns asked why we should care if corporations control all our info--what are they going to do, just show me better-targeted ads?
To bring this problem home to the masses, unfortunately, it takes horror stories. I'm newbie enough not to know many. Can anyone help by posting either concrete examples of corporate control of our information harming people (e.g. people being denied health insurance because they buy alcohol, etc.), or similar concrete examples of plausible threats? My campaign awaits.