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I have a lot of thoughts about this. So chips in vaccines is clearly daft to the technically literate.
I also think expert bias leaves technically literate folks unable to understand where fears like this come from and to address them with empathy.
(continued) https://twitter.com/0xAmit/status/1361395367535915011
I also think expert bias leaves technically literate folks unable to understand where fears like this come from and to address them with empathy.
(continued) https://twitter.com/0xAmit/status/1361395367535915011
We spend a lot of time and energy shouting about privacy and tracking risks, with very few of us doing this at a level that's inclusive of non-technically literate users.
Of course they're afraid of being tracked, they are being tracked. We've been shouting at them about this.
Of course they're afraid of being tracked, they are being tracked. We've been shouting at them about this.
The idea that there's a massive, unregulated surveillance capitalist machine that feeds on your data and tracks you through your existing everyday tech use sounds like a scifi dystopia.
Without technical literacy, this sounds just as fanciful and strange as chips in vaccines.
Without technical literacy, this sounds just as fanciful and strange as chips in vaccines.
People are so afraid of a future where they might be tracked in the way that they're currently being tracked that they're willing to increase risk of serious illness.
They don't trust a system that they think wants to track them. This facet of their fear seems rational to me.
They don't trust a system that they think wants to track them. This facet of their fear seems rational to me.
More technical education to increase technical literacy seems like the fix here, but I argue it's not.
Folks shouldn't have to understand how chips or cross site tracking or data lakes work.
Knowing more about these don't build trust, it just directs distrust more correctly.
Folks shouldn't have to understand how chips or cross site tracking or data lakes work.
Knowing more about these don't build trust, it just directs distrust more correctly.
I would love to see us scaffold immediate, needed education about vaccines with regulation around tracking and privacy.
Teach why *this* thing people fear is safe, while at the same time removing the larger underlying and very real fear of tracking.
Teach why *this* thing people fear is safe, while at the same time removing the larger underlying and very real fear of tracking.
In the meantime, stop goddamn sneering.
Giggling at folks afraid of a conspiracy theory post-privacy tech dystopia when we're all living in a real post-privacy tech dystopia isn't cute.
Especially when many of us built and support the tracking systems people rightly fear.
Giggling at folks afraid of a conspiracy theory post-privacy tech dystopia when we're all living in a real post-privacy tech dystopia isn't cute.
Especially when many of us built and support the tracking systems people rightly fear.
None of this is a dig at the QTed chap, it's so frustrating to see conspiracy theories floating around when you know better!
This has just been percolating in my mind for a while. How as humans we filter our fears through the understanding we have available to us.
This has just been percolating in my mind for a while. How as humans we filter our fears through the understanding we have available to us.
