So, if the servers are located somewhere else, but the owners still sell data to authoritarians, somehow makes things better? How is that even remotely relevant. Why nobody cares about real privacy?
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Because it's not convenient.
Granted, I don't have a whole lot of proof to go off of, but because Tiktok, Insta and other services are very convenient to use, people enjoy to use them. Privacy is not a common concern, because of two things:
- Look at Tiktok's estimated userbase - a whole lot of teenagers. They don't know what it means to have your data handed over.
- There has not been - yet, i am dead sure of that. - an incident where the handing-over of such data has become problematic (let alone lethal) to someone "important".
This is an absurdly overexaggerated example, but imagine Biden was shot because his position was easily estimateable by his SN activity that was handed over. THEN people would probably care about it.
As long as it doesn't affect "them", "they" dont care. My mom uses Tiktok and regularily prods me for not having WhatsApp or Insta. After talking to her about it, she is like, "my data is worthless anyway, I am just an old housewife". Or in other words: Nothing bad has happened, so it probably never will.
Thats... at least my take on this.