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archildress | 3 years ago

I've thought about this many times, and my answer is: when there is a massive, at-scale leak of seriously disruptive personal information. Think Google search history, medical files, or databases of credit card transactions. When it takes enough peoples' lives off the normal track, people will finally be fed up.

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AndrewKemendo|3 years ago

That already happened with the OPM breach in 2015 It seriously messed up people's credit, work life and daily lives. [0]

No slow down at all of data gathering.

There's been dozens of the exact kind you're describing and nobody cares [1].

[0] https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/arti...

[1] https://www.purdueglobal.edu/blog/information-technology/wor...

WorldMaker|3 years ago

Also the Equifax breach seriously messed up people's credit, work life, and daily lives.

Given Equifax's one job is to protect people's credit you would have hoped they'd have gotten more than a slap on the wrist of a class action lawsuit. At the very least, you would have expected their clients (banks) to have had trust issues in remaining their clients and something of a long term impact on their revenue. (It's done nothing but grow its revenue since the data breach.)

eldaisfish|3 years ago

The north american credit rating agencies have seen numerous leaks of immensely disruptive personal information. This happened so many times that there are talk show episodes about it.

This happened. The vast majority of people do not care or do not have time to care.

openfuture|3 years ago

I love how you brought up this meme (which used to be a consensus opinion fwict ~2009) and it immediately got discredit with multiple examples! Clearly this is not a way forward ("waiting for others to be outraged" - guess what? They already are!! You are all just too coward to change your behaviour) we /must/ move to FOSS and p2p, all energy should go towards solving the tragedy of the commons in cyberspace and then the resulting communication structures will help us solve our issues in meatspace. Anything else is just wishful thinking or waiting for the tools to be available from the programmer class.

zx85wes|3 years ago

The outrage would only be temporary (again). And then things would go back to 'normal'

npc54321|3 years ago

Someone should leak everyone's nudes from google photos/iCloud etc.

Including names and everything.

That would wake people up.

buscoquadnary|3 years ago

They did it was the fappenning. The only difference is it happened to celebrities so the police got right on solving that.