http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/180387
http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/180415
“The problem is that the transformation of other sectors and industries enacted by data have led to a society where clearly citizens every day face incentives to abandon that very control that the right to privacy guarantees them, in search for benefits, savings, coupons and so forth. The way in which the insurance industry now works indicates to you exactly how impossible it would be to continue defending privacy with that language. Insurance companies tell you that if you’re willing to monitor yourself, put a sensor in your car, in your kitchen, put a sensor even on yourself when you walk, and if you manage to show that you’re far less risky than they assume you are, then you’ll get a major benefit. Which means that if we don’t account for the structural economic and social conditions which make privacy unlikely, we’re never going to get very far”. Given the crisis, stagnating wages, unemployment, “you cannot expect that people will continue campaigning to demand privacy when sacrificing privacy is what produces savings and gives them cash.”
… building movements around things that affect people directly and hit their wallets, “whether it’s inequality, then you need to appeal to a sense of injustice, or whether it’s uncertainty and precarity”… such as the present struggles against the labour law in France; in fact the only instance in the last few years when people in France did fight in the streets over a technological issue were the French taxi drivers protesting about Uber, “and that was because it was framed as a purely economic issue, and not just as a technological or privacy issue.”