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The hardest thing about maintaining ur online privacy are the people around you. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 27 points 6 months ago (6 children)

It's by design. If 80 to 90% or more of people blindly agree to share their contacts and email then the rest of use are caught up in it every time we communicate with them.

You cannot both participate in mainstream social networks and communications platforms and have any real privacy.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I've heard you can ask those people, "if you have nothing to hide would you be OK with a camera in your shower? Recording you have sex?"

    I like the saying that privacy is like cancer. Just because you don't have it doesn't mean its not vitally important to solve for society as a whole.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    “if you have nothing to hide would you be OK with a camera in your shower?

    I like, "OK! Please hand me your phone, unlocked. Let me have it for 24h. I'll give it back to you tomorrow. I won't harm it in any way. I will only look."

    Or, "OK! What is your bank account number and password?"

    I believe ppl know that everyone has something to hide. It's just an excuse they use.

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