“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might have sounded like a bold claim at the turn of the millennium has turned into a self…
You can’t inconveniently ask, you now must inconveniently forgo entire sections of modern society and return to physical, analog workarounds - if you’re even legally allowed to go without, that is. Going all cash and forgoing most banks and several major stores, avoiding electronics as much as possible, driving around with bicycles instead of public transport or personal vehicles, settling for jobs that still accept physical CVs. At this point, the only proper opt-out would be to go live in the mountains, growing your own crops and living like in the stone age.
You can’t inconveniently ask, you now must inconveniently forgo entire sections of modern society and return to physical, analog workarounds - if you’re even legally allowed to go without, that is. Going all cash and forgoing most banks and several major stores, avoiding electronics as much as possible, driving around with bicycles instead of public transport or personal vehicles, settling for jobs that still accept physical CVs. At this point, the only proper opt-out would be to go live in the mountains, growing your own crops and living like in the stone age.