Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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How can we convince normies that their privacy is important? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I tend to tell people who are not convinced that privacy is important these things:

you don't know how the data can be used or by whom
- example: Grindr data used by a religious paper to out a gay pastor
- example: Girls Around Me app
not just you, but anyone who you are in contact with
- if someobody gets your data, they can use that against anyone you know; if somebody knows you're gay, or that you vote for a particular party, they can make assumptions about your friends and family
- example: Facebook's ghost profiles
not just now, you don't know how things change in 5, 10, 15 years
- example: the Taliban getting US biometric stuff in Afghanistan
- example: LGBTQ+ in Russia, mostly fine 20y ago, now serious danger