# Privacy's not an abstraction - Host: [fastcompany.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/fastcompany.com/) - Saved: March 28, 2019 (2019-03-29T03:24:18Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f8993af4c053/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f8993af4c053.json ## What Jamie wrote This article does a good job of highlighting what privacy concerns look like from different perspectives. > On a more basic level, infringing on people’s privacy for your own purposes is exploitative. The assignment reflects the logic of digital platforms, which treats people’s data as raw material to be extracted and put to one’s own uses. While this extraction is currently legal, it is a “norm” inflicted upon us by platforms such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. This kind of extraction is surveillance, and whether it is done online or in the “real world,” it intrudes upon people’s rights to move about in public in relative obscurity if they so wish. The author introduces the idea of "luxury surveillance", where you are being watched with at least a partial intent to help you. I think we should also consider the idea that there is a surveillance that is forced onto people if they don't have the technical understanding to counter it. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT99: Weekly Thing #99 / Mar 30, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/99/), Notable Links 📌 ## Same host - [How to feel happier](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ea8db5f25d5a/) (fastcompany.com, October 17, 2018) - [Executive coach: 7 secrets to lasting career satisfaction](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5e25279ffe19/) (fastcompany.com, February 10, 2019) - [How to get better at estimating your time](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/285289d12b26/) (fastcompany.com, March 7, 2019) - [Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does is bad for you](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f13a2a00da8b/) (fastcompany.com, March 21, 2019) - [I left the ad industry because our use of data tracking terrified me](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1fc7dafea9c9/) (fastcompany.com, June 13, 2019) ## Saved the same week - [This Is Your Brain on Exercise | Outside Online](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9a33b7d9628c/) (outsideonline.com, March 28, 2019) - [The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned – Steven Pressfield](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/434a15bad0ff/) (stevenpressfield.com, March 28, 2019) - [Why Fastly loves QUIC and HTTP/3](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0ad529a2a60a/) (fastly.com, March 28, 2019) - [Drafts for Mac: The MacStories Review – MacStories](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/411851bf6435/) (macstories.net, March 28, 2019) - [Shortcuts 2.2 Brings New Apple Notes Actions, Travel Time Enhancements – MacStories](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6535fdc9e785/) (macstories.net, March 28, 2019) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.fastcompany.com/90323529/privacy-is-not-an-abstraction