At least these days it’s much easier to link this to material impact to people. Unlike in the past when data collection was a distant, often abstract problem that people didn’t see as requiring action. Thanks to surveillance pricing being raised into the social consciousness, it’s easy to explain how OpenAI’s (or insert other Big Tech corpo) data scraping is used to make the person pay more on Amazon, or Walmart.
At least these days it’s much easier to link this to material impact to people. Unlike in the past when data collection was a distant, often abstract problem that people didn’t see as requiring action. Thanks to surveillance pricing being raised into the social consciousness, it’s easy to explain how OpenAI’s (or insert other Big Tech corpo) data scraping is used to make the person pay more on Amazon, or Walmart.
Yup, that’s really the only way to make people care. You have to draw a direct line to their wallet.