{"id":41406,"date":"2019-12-25T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T14:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41406"},"modified":"2019-12-25T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T14:41:16","slug":"nytimes-be-paranoid-about-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41406","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Be Paranoid About Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/24\/opinion\/location-privacy.html\">Be Paranoid About Privacy<\/a> by Kara Swisher (&#8220;We need to take back our privacy from tech companies \u2014 even if that means sacrificing convenience.&#8221;):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This week, Google Maps could not find me, and it seemed really pissed off.<\/p>\n<p>I switched all of the location-access buttons on my iPhone from \u201cWhile Using the App\u201d to \u201cAsk Next Time,\u201d causing my most useful app to launch a series of increasingly desperate pop-up entreaties, begging me to make my life easier by letting it automatically locate me (rather than giving it access to my location only when I type in where I am and where I want to go).<\/p>\n<p>I cannot imagine its stalker rage if I had clicked \u201cNever\u201d allow the app to track my location.<\/p>\n<p>Tough luck, Google Maps. Because, as 2019 ends, I am breaking up with opt-in by taking up a well-worn Silicon Valley bromide as my digital mantra: Only the paranoid survive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: Be Paranoid About Privacy by Kara Swisher (&#8220;We need to take back our privacy from tech companies \u2014 even if that means sacrificing convenience.&#8221;):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-privacy","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41408,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41406\/revisions\/41408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}