Often times, I tell people to what extend big tech is willing to hurt people, to collect more and more money, as in data! And the reaction is… disappointing. They either don’t care, sometimes even making jokes, or don’t get over the inconvenience of switching.

If I tell them that that some of those privacy apps, like brave compared to chrome, is more convenient, they don’t care. If I tell them that they hurt themselves by using big tech, like TikTok, they don’t care. If I tell them that their use of those apps hurt others, they don’t care.

I don’t think I am convincing enough. So what can I tell them?

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The issue is that they trust institutions. Not because they think institutions are inherently trustworthy, but because they think that they are below these institutions attention. Reframe the threat in terms of petty bad actors exploiting institutional oversights.

The big tech companies are using AI to code now and it’s leaving big security flaws because no one can keep track of all the code AI churns out. Evil criminals, probably foreigners, who used to be too dumb for hacking can now use AI to take advantage of these flaws. They can use your data to figure out your online banking information, or they’ll use personal information to make Ai-faked blackmail material more convincing.

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