> Instead of "privacy" we really should be talking about "control".

Fantastic. This is what I have been shifting towards these past couple years. Hardly anyone likes to be controlled, right?

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crapple8430 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They are separate but related concerns. Privacy is what you have (or don't have) right now. Control is what you can use to keep or throw it away in the future.

Apple gives you some privacy, better than most Android by default. But it gives you no control. If they decide you don't deserve privacy a year down the line, well, too bad.

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kgwxd 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't but it seems a LOT of people do. They even seem to prefer it.

	▲	sfRattan 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Control means ownership. Ownership means work. Until they've been burned by unspoken realities of not owning some piece of their own digital lives, most people will continue to prefer being tenants, rather than owners. Technology is only the most recent domain in which we can observe the human tendency to prefer the short term, incurious ease and license not to think that tenancy provides over the long term, ongoing work and thorough understanding that ownership demands. To become an owner you need some deeper intrinsically cultivated reason to desire it.