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80/20 applies for everyone unless you are James Bond or Ed Snowden.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by freddy@lemmy.one to privacyguides@lemmy.one
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/
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80/20 applies for everyone unless you are James Bond or Ed Snowden.
I agree with you and the premise, in general.
Unfortunately even the little bits of data that are gathered can form a bigger picture over even a few years. See the recent acquisition of Ancestry.com by Blackstone (a finance company, IIRC) - now pretty much all of us have some of our genealogy held by them. Why would a finance company want that data(rhetorical question).
Context on 80/20 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
I like this article. Perfect is the enemy of good and all that, and trying to keep some privacy is worth it, especially now.
Thanks for the kind words!
irvinefantasyno@beehaw.org 17 hours ago
As someone who is the first to go “yeah, but so-n-so does this-n-that,” I needed this reminder of the thin line between “being informative” and “being a killjoy.”
Caveats are nice, but I still shouldn’t discourage folx from making better choices.