<story><title>Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/business/behavioral-biometrics-banks-security.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostimpo</author><text>Does anyone else feel a sense of overwhelming futility with respect to internet privacy? I&amp;#x27;m at the point where I feel like I might as well just use all the fancy features and devices, privacy be damned.&lt;p&gt;It feels like it&amp;#x27;s a giant waste of time, even if you go out of your way to use &amp;quot;privacy protecting&amp;quot; expensive devices and software. Use an iPhone or LineageOS! Use Firefox! Don&amp;#x27;t use Google services! Don&amp;#x27;t use iCloud, back up everything to a local NAS! Pay for your email services!&lt;p&gt;It all feels mostly pointless. There&amp;#x27;s always another thing right around the corner. You&amp;#x27;re always defeated and tracked -- this time with &amp;quot;behavioral biometrics.&amp;quot; For the average person, why not just give up? Throw an Amazon Echo in the corner and at least you can control your lights and play Jeopardy.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s totally exhausting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeftTurnSignal</author><text>Almost all of my friends are this way now.  They just gave up on any sense of privacy and accepted it.  I can&amp;#x27;t say I blame them.  They have different needs &amp;#x2F; wants than I do, but I will admit it&amp;#x27;s pretty disheartening too.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t given up yet, but it&amp;#x27;s such a pain in the ass if you don&amp;#x27;t keep up on it.  I ended up just ditching any service that doesn&amp;#x27;t respect my privacy or at the very least, stick with ones that say they respect it.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s anything real important I have a few friends who usually let me know.  I still do miss some events but I figure if no one remembered to ask me, it&amp;#x27;s not important, or I&amp;#x27;m not that important.  Either way, it&amp;#x27;s not my issue.</text></comment>
<story><title>Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/business/behavioral-biometrics-banks-security.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostimpo</author><text>Does anyone else feel a sense of overwhelming futility with respect to internet privacy? I&amp;#x27;m at the point where I feel like I might as well just use all the fancy features and devices, privacy be damned.&lt;p&gt;It feels like it&amp;#x27;s a giant waste of time, even if you go out of your way to use &amp;quot;privacy protecting&amp;quot; expensive devices and software. Use an iPhone or LineageOS! Use Firefox! Don&amp;#x27;t use Google services! Don&amp;#x27;t use iCloud, back up everything to a local NAS! Pay for your email services!&lt;p&gt;It all feels mostly pointless. There&amp;#x27;s always another thing right around the corner. You&amp;#x27;re always defeated and tracked -- this time with &amp;quot;behavioral biometrics.&amp;quot; For the average person, why not just give up? Throw an Amazon Echo in the corner and at least you can control your lights and play Jeopardy.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s totally exhausting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beat</author><text>I deal with it mostly by asking myself what &amp;quot;privacy&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m really concerned about. Let&amp;#x27;s see... I don&amp;#x27;t want anyone actually stealing my money. I don&amp;#x27;t want sensitive security information that can be used to steal my money (ie passwords) falling into unauthorized hands.&lt;p&gt;But my personal history? My photos? Words I&amp;#x27;ve written? Oh well. If someone wants that stuff, they can probably get it. And the gaping maw of robotic commerce doesn&amp;#x27;t actually care about me personally, it only cares what it can sell me.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not worried about the police or some authoritarian tyranny on a &lt;i&gt;personal&lt;/i&gt; level, on the level where what I say on the internet matters. I worry about it in an &lt;i&gt;impersonal&lt;/i&gt; way. When the robot overlords are rounding up the granola-munching people of south Minneapolis for extermination, they won&amp;#x27;t be checking our internet history first.</text></comment>