[notbuyingit]

Surely the first step of this is a basic understanding of your right, no? Or are you suggesting this isn't worth talking about unless the author lays out a plan to undo decades of state privacy encroachment and our unending march towards a surveillance state?

[janalsncm]

No, I’m saying an individual level strategy of enforcing rights is a recipe for failure, and to the extent that the line wasn’t just a pat way to wrap up it’s pretty disappointing to see the author advocating it. Maybe I’m just arguing with someone on their way out the door in which case I’ll just shut up.

It’s reminiscent of the rhetoric passing on responsibility for externalities (environmental destruction, child labor etc) to the consumer. It doesn’t work and companies know this.

All things being equal, I would choose to preserve my privacy, just like I’d choose not to have child slaves harvesting cocoa. But all things are never equal. Just because I buy a chocolate bar doesn’t mean I agree with child labor, just like agreeing to take a picture so I can board a plane doesn’t mean I support the government spying on me.