Have you ever been tangibly affected by a violation of your privacy? Share your story. Convince me that the boogeyman is real.
Have you ever been tangibly affected by a violation of your privacy? Share your story...
Mason Brown
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Brody Jones
If you want a real life example, I don't like my parents discussing my life with others. I told them not to, but they did it anyways. So the solution is I don't discuss my life with them anymore so they don't have material to use.
Aiden Lee
Digital privacy is more the focus, but I think your story is pretty simple to apply. Don't share things you don't want to share, right? That doesn't seem like the cataclysmic event that privacy spergs make it out to be.
Brayden Wood
My mom asked me for my iTouch (circa 2008) and randomly checked the history on it. She didn't like what she found and I didn't like the results of her discovery
Parker Kelly
in 2011 our shitty ISP sent my mother a scare message about torrenting Anal Buffet 5
it was really annoying because she wouldn't let me use the computer anymore and said I disrespected women, God, and some other things too
but lesson learned, they made a better pirate of me
Jayden Hall
Repent.
Christian Ward
One time I was out drunk and lost my phone and used Google's creepy logging of your location to help remember where I went. I guess that was a Good Thing though.
Anthony Brown
My phone number has got the occasional unsolicited call since I started applying for jobs a while back.
An example being the classic Indian accent "hello I'm from PC world".
I'm certain one of the companies I applied to sold my number.
On a similar less relevant subject:
I also got unwillingly put on Speedcast's mailing list recently while my job application to them was completely ghosted for months.
Robert Parker
What history would you even have on an iTouch? I don't remember those even being able to go online.
Brandon Edwards
They had the Safari browser. It was porn ofc
Levi Hall
Every time I become "active" again in the employment world, the amount of spam calls and emails I get goes up exponentially.
Indeed, Dice, and all these other third party/company specific application sites just sell and advertise your contact info fucking everywhere.
And since I own a home, all you have to do is search my name online and it shows you where I live and my current phone number. So that's fucking garbage.
Samuel Russell
Watching porn in a Safari mobile browser on a 2008 iTouch sounds like a feat in itself honestly.
I applaud your efforts.
Brayden Myers
What Bad Thing is Google going to do with that data? Target you with ads that you can block? Sell it to the government if you break the law? How likely would it be for it negatively affect your life? Oppressive government regimes have a historically short lifespan. Plus, motherfucker, they have NUCLEAR MISSLES. What greater evil could they do knowing you went to the bar on a Friday night?
David Thompson
Privacy autists are autists at the end of the day. They only see in black and white terms so if there is ANYONE with the potential to see anything about them then they have no privacy. This leads to rabbit holes about what technically might be possible so the autist plans accordingly for every possible circumstance
Of course regular people pick and choose what goes out to whom and can actually make a decision if they care about what a company or someone might know
Jaxson Carter
On digital privacy specifically:
>read hentai manwha on my phone in the incognito tab
>later see ads for the same manwha I was reading on my wife's phone
Of course she didn't know what it was, but it made me shit bricks when I saw it. That incident made me buy a VPN, install Brave and change my search engine to StartPage.
Jaxon Perez
Spam calls are annoying as fuck, but that's not really a privacy issue. It's more like a shitty antiquated phone system thing. It's super cheap and easy to spam nowadays. Dialing millions of phone numbers is nothing.
Being able to look up where you live is literally never going to affect you.
Carter Butler
same here
Elijah Watson
kys
Parker White
I swear, privacy communities are just support groups for people with undiagnosed anxiety disorders
Brayden Allen
Well it's not too difficult to imagine a situation where it could go south. Say you're married and have a nosy wife who gets access to an account and finds out you're somewhere she didn't think you would be.
Really though the privacy argument is a mix of two things
a) recognition that your data can and will be used oppressively by people in authority
b) a natural, human level of discomfort you shouldn't ignore that basic behavior in your day to day life is being surreptitiously logged and passed around among various pajeets and contractors
If you've ever worked in an industry that handled data with shadow IT you may understand B) a little bit better. Data is not treated with care or caution.
Cameron Taylor
>Being able to look up where you live is literally never going to affect you.
You've clearly never stuck your dick in crazy.
Keep it that way.
Logan Ross
>Of course regular people pick and choose what goes out to whom and can actually make a decision if they care about what a company or someone might know
if you use any of the less private services like facebook messenger or something you cant choose not to let facebook see your shit.
"if you dont want someone to know dont tell anyone" is a stupid argument, i should be able to tell my friends what i did that day without that information getting sent to anyone but them.
laws arent always good, and you dont necessarely have to do anything wrong to get on the government's naughty list, ever heard of julian assange or snowden?
and with google, they can put that data through their ai to train it and get better at manipulating the public.
David Scott
i dev an app to check who spy my privacy many many many firms with reason filter terrorism
speed up ref and proxy people so yes even if nobody want spy you , your data is checked everytime
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