• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Do YOU have anything to hide??

      “Yea my bank information, passwords, personal identity, identity of all my loved ones. But hey, if you hate having security and love being blackmailed and hate everyone who you have ever made contact in your life and wish to make their life hell then you do you and stay far the fuck away from me. We don’t know each other and we never will”

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      8 months ago

      What’s the counter to that sentence then?

      Every time I try to explain why this is a dumb sentence using the door lock analogy I always get rebuffed by it.

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        8 months ago

        All the answers you got show why this conversation goes badly. No one can come up with an actual problem that data collection causes, it’s all silly comparisons to giving people your credit card number or shitting in front of them.

        For me, having my data collected is like having CCTV cameras in stores. Yeah, technically someone is filming everything I do. Yeah it would be bad if a private individual was filming me for nefarious reasons. But no one actually uses that data for anything bad, and it doesn’t actually cause any problems.

        All that happens is I get more relevant ads.