Interesting study where Ali Baba turned off e-commerce personalization for half a million people to see what would happen if personal data was more regulated.
Sales fell significantly, hitting smaller & newer sellers most as buyers needed to search more. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3962157
There’s so little demand for privacy in the U.S, that politicians have no reason to work toward it. It’ll stay that way until enough people refuse to engage with surveillance based services. I don’t honestly see that happening. Even people I know who claim to care about privacy routinely violate their own privacy and that of other people for mere convenience.
There’s so little demand for privacy in the U.S, that politicians have no reason to work toward it. It’ll stay that way until enough people refuse to engage with surveillance based services. I don’t honestly see that happening. Even people I know who claim to care about privacy routinely violate their own privacy and that of other people for mere convenience.