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PYTHONDJANGO | 3 years ago

This is an industry standard brain wash technique that is used in many products.

Just yesterday I actually had time to read that new Apple "Privacy" Statement that pops up on a Mac for some reason since a few weeks and they put a blunt lie on top about how "private" their service is and just a few lines later they tell you that they grab actually all your private data.

Every EU website now pops up a "privacy statement" where they actually tell you that they DO NOT respect your privacy.

I am sure there is a technical term for that, I would simply describe it as "producing cognitive dissonance in the most obvious way and make it look fine".

It took already an enormous effort to get all these companies to actually have to report about their abuse of your private data, in EU even make users agree.

However, it did not change anything - most companies still break your privacy even with more fun doing it, as you agreed.

A terrible and wasteful development of modern primitive capitalism.

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PYTHONDJANGO|3 years ago

BTW George Orwell of course predicted it very well.