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Kinda wacked out take. Onus shouldnt be on the individual
While I do agree its a bit whack, I question if everything needs 100% safety to be legal?
If someone offers a dangerous thing and you sign a waiver, maybe motocross, if you get injured is it the owners fault? Why should an individual be free from onus?
Yea that's kinda what I was thinking. Digital safety should be up to the individual, big companies should be fined and held accountable to the data they collect.
Its why I'm on Lemmy, I host my own instance and thus I own the data. I've moved my email and cloud backups to instances I own as well. I understand I'm a bit privileged that I can do such things, but I plan on helping others setup their own needs online if I can.
Unfortunately we've been on autopilot just taking online products and folding them into our lives without much forethought to the outcomes. Didn't know democracy was at threat, but with hindsight it makes sense. Power is moving up the chain of command and could be lost to us labourers for the foreseeable future unless we take it back through our data.