{"id":11597,"date":"2010-02-18T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/google-and-facebooks-entire-business-model-is\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:29:35","slug":"google-and-facebooks-entire-business-model-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/google-and-facebooks-entire-business-model-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Google and Facebook\u2019s entire business model is based on the notion of \u201cmonetizing\u201d our privacy. To succeed they must slowly change the notion of privacy itself\u2014the \u201csocial norm,\u201d as Facebook puts it\u2014so that what we\u2019re giving up doesn\u2019t seem so valuable. Then they must gain our trust. Thus each new erosion of privacy comes delivered, paradoxically, with rhetoric about how Company X really cares about privacy. I\u2019m not sure whether Orwell would be appalled or impressed. And who knew Big Brother would be not a big government agency, but a bunch of kids in Silicon Valley?<\/p>\n<p>The problem with buying things with your privacy is you really don\u2019t know how much you\u2019re paying. With money, five bucks is five bucks. But what is the value of your list of friends? If it\u2019s not worth much, your membership on Facebook may be the deal of a lifetime. If it\u2019s incredibly valuable, you\u2019re getting massively ripped off. Only the techies know how much your info is worth, and they\u2019re not telling. But the fact that they\u2019d rather get your data than your dollars tells you all you need to know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/233773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyons, on Buzz, etc.<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newsweek<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Facebook\u2019s entire business model is based on the notion of \u201cmonetizing\u201d our privacy. To succeed they must slowly change the notion of privacy itself\u2014the \u201csocial norm,\u201d as Facebook puts it\u2014so that what we\u2019re giving up doesn\u2019t seem so valuable. Then they must gain our trust. Thus each new erosion of privacy comes delivered, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}