Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was.

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Like what? I still doubt whatever data brokers share about me (my public information that could have been found in a phone book, activity shared by websites, voluntary information, metadata) to target advertisements is all that sensitive.

Data vulnerable to identity theft & fraud, however, is important to protect, laws protect them, and I take measures to protect them. Security isn’t perfect, however, and this information will leak.

Ironically, the people who pass laws to safeguard the junk data that isn’t sensitive (hello, cookie consent banners) also pass laws to compel the risky disclosure of sensitive information for identification. They have privacy entirely backward.

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