With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

  • Frost Wolf@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    It might be a niche yeah, but it won’t be when a lawsuit looms. It won’t be when Data Privacy Laws come knocking. People underestimate the value of privacy even though virtually any job has privacy as its most basic requirements. May it be medical records, banks, NDAs, contracts, even the most basic of tasks, has some form of privacy stipulations in it.

    As someone pursuing a career in health care I became more and more concerned because some store patient files and notes in unsecured text files/apps like notion, google docs and even excel. I’m sure other jobs and employment has their own privacy issues as well.

    Privacy is a niche at face value but so many people underestimate its value. When everything they say or store online and even offline can be hacked, tracked or exploited, anything can be a potential lawsuit without taking the necessary precautions.

    • wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Privacy is an ideal but I don’t agree that privacy laws are a looming threat to those who ignore them. Our right to privacy is being swept away at a rapid rate and there will be no repercussions for those who invade our privacy.

      • tokyo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        It’s a perfect system. People don’t care about their privacy. Companies use all their data for profit and then use that generated money to lobby against privacy laws. They get to get more data, more money, more lobbying.

        I don’t think anyone will actually care until it’s too late AND they are personally affected.

        I hope that in my lifetime there is a turnaround and people take privacy seriously. I will continue to tote privacy practices and support privacy supporting software until then but god is it exhausting.

    • Metallibus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      As someone pursuing a career in health care I became more and more concerned because some store patient files and notes in unsecured text files/apps like notion, google docs and even excel.

      This is just the beginning - the medical space is notoriously awful and also a place where you probably really care about privacy. But using secure alternatives is too annoying for most medical staff and they just see it as ankther hurdle. Actually getting people to use secure software that’s not the software they’re already used to is way harder than it should be.

      People just don’t understand or don’t care. Convenience is way more important to people than anything else.