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- Privacy shmivacy
My sister just flew into Chicago on an evening flight that after one delay and another landed at two in the morning. There were no apologies from the crew as the passengers shuffled off the plane, just as there had been no complimentary food or beverages from the crew either during the flight or during the hour the plane sat fully loaded at its gate in Los Angeles. “Why do people put up with this kind of treatment?” my sister wondered. Because we’ve all made a Faustian bargain, I said. When we fly, all that matters is price. The airlines know that and treat us accordingly.
But what have Americans done to protect themselves? The measures we’ve taken sound fairly paltry when listed by Pew, as are the numbers of people who have taken them. For instances, 87 percent of Americans have heard something about the surveillance programs but of these, just 17 percent say they’ve changed the privacy settings on the social media they use.
