How people who work in the adtech/data industry rationalize what they do, from a Reddit thread about John Oliver's segment on data brokers:
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1) #whatabout
2) #whatabout bigtech?!
"Anti-data broker activism is shilling for big business"
...and while data is anonymized and aggregated anyway, privacy is over THINK ABOUT QUANTUM COMPUTING! 🙄
3) "I can understand the argument that people may not know this" BUT all of the data obtained is freely given and/or agreed to be collected!
And ya know, "the internet is not a right and there is no obligation to use it".
4) Really, "just don't use the internet ... easier than it sounds" 🤡
To be fair, there are other people in the industry I can relate more to.
And I admit, this guy has a point.
It's something I've long been trying to emphasize. Much of the data in adtech is flawed or fraudulent but broadcasting personal data on billions across myriads of firms and its systematic misuse are still a massive problem for several reasons.
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