Security News > 2021 > July > Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class

So you have privacy until commercial imperatives deem that unhelpful? That's not actual privacy - that's privacy theatre.

People still seem willing to pay for the appearance of privacy.

Because privacy costs money, privacy has become a defining marker of class.

Below a certain threshold of income, you're prey to the devices and ecosystems that offer themselves up freely - at the cost of any privacy.

For the very rich - Gates and Musk and Bezos and their ilk - all the money in the world can't buy privacy.

Much as modesty was for the Victorians, privacy is becoming a middle-class value.

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