Today, I went to the postal office to send a package to a friend.
After finishing the usual routine, the person who attended me made me an offer about a points card for the company for free.
The card would provide me an advantage to send packages faster without waiting (because identified part of my personal data with it) and after certain number of money invested sending packages, I would receive a discount.
Everything seemed fine, until I heard that I had to give my consent about the use of my personal data. That person suggested me to just sign and read it later in home and I preferred to start reading a bit since was a bit short. Without even finishing and, in the moment I asked about reading the ToS in home and return back with it signed if I accepted, the person suggested I was “taking too much” (indirectly) and “I was confused with what I needed to do” (directly). She put me the paper to sign on top and, for not losing my mind and give me time to think I just signed.
I finished reading the ToS when arrived at home. After checking a bit, my copy had some unmarked “yes/no” questions in one of the papers about leaving third parties to use my data for promotions.
I could not check the state of it in the copy delivered but I am sure these were unmarked as well leaving that person to choose mark them or not as I already signed without choosing any of the options.
To be exact, I felt a bit annoyed after that and am going to ask inmediate cancellation of the card.
The heat of the moment. It can be really tricky.
They made you compromise the integrity of your ideals by creating an artificial imbalance of time convenience versus privacy. You chose time.
The only option is to stand firm with your ideals, and preplan your OPSEC for such situations.
Let’s see next time.
I recommend you start with threat modelling for yourself. There is a threat model guide here.
One of my favourite pastimes when I am sitting blank headed is battle simulations i.e. where I visualise situations or battles that I feel I could lose one day. Try it, it is very powerful and leads to many solutions. Sometimes I even dream of such battle simulations.
Thank you, I will try.
I use to simulate conversations with people in a limuted set already and prepare answers but that got me really surprised.
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Normies do not care about privacy.
We lost and we’ll continue losing until one day, we, too, wake up in corporate shackles others put on us by negligence.
Come to terms with it. Then fight it.
