• magna carta@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    5 个月前

    It is I, the frenchiest fry~ guilty as charged.

    In my defense, I don’t have anything to hide— I’m just not someone you want visible 🫆

  • ook@discuss.tchncs.de
    31·
    5 个月前

    You’re too optimistic here. Such people will only realise their error if something bad happens to them that also screams at them that it was only possible because of their privacy eroding. They don’t usually connect the dots themselves.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    5 个月前

    “Ultimately, arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

    — Edward Snowden

    • octopus_ink@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      2·
      5 个月前

      I’d hope current events would be the counter argument. Take your pick regarding country/continent and event. I’m being intentionally vague to ensure I don’t run afoul of the rules of the sidebar, but there are legitimately many examples currently, some mentioned by others in this discussion.

      I should add that events such as “You’ve been doing X which has always been legal for your entire life, but now worldchangingevent or policychange has happened and it’s no longer legal, and they are persecuting people for it” have always been pretty plausible hypotheticals. We just have modern, current examples of how wrong that can go now.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
    2·
    5 个月前

    I figure they can already simulate what I will do for 300 years, so I don’t bother anymore.

    I also posted my nudes publicly, so they can go ahead and stare…

  • Zier@fedia.io
    47·
    5 个月前

    We are literally living in a horribly written sci-fi movie with so many incompetent villains, that are all trying to take over at once. Never let anyone have access to your life unless they have a very good reason. You’re not ‘hiding’ anything, you are preventing unscrupulous individuals from exploiting you. Do you leave your car or home unlocked with the keys in the door? Preventing a crime before it happens is the reason Privacy is important.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 个月前

    Let’s have a little online conference on lemmy to discuss ways to get people to care more about their privacy. Things might be different than 2010 now:

    1. people are definitely waking up to reality of fascism.
    2. privacy-conscious apps (both FOSS and closed) are now more convenient than ever.

    maybe we just need the correct memes (in the Dawkins sense) to infect people with to make privacy a major issue on people’s minds.

  • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml
    3·
    5 个月前

    When raising awareness with my friends I ask them about their sexual preferences. They all laugh and say its obvious wheyer they’re straight, gay or whatever and then I say I one really asked for that. I ask them to disclose how they get off. Their filthiest porn fantasies. Then it gets a bit more difficult for them but it’s all ask giggles. Next question is the exact amount on their bank account and their exact monthly wage. Strangely, that’s something most of them won’t disclose. I ask for their insecurities and they go with superficial things but when I keep pushing about the real insecurities it get hard for them.

    When I explain that what they find hard to share with a friend of most likely out in the open for sale with data brokers they get uncomfortable.

    Social media knows how much you visit you coworkers profile and get you have a crush on therm. Porn sites know your deepest desires. Amazon had a pretty good insight in your earnings.

    It’s all our there so use a decent VPN , block as many trackers as you can and at least use fake online profiles as much as you can. It’s a start and not as difficult or bothersome as it seems.

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
    25·
    5 个月前

    I’d trade all my privacy and secrets if it meant we got to see the full Epstein files and everyone involved saw Justice.

  • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    150·
    5 个月前

    I don’t think these people will ever realize anything, not until it severely fucks with their quality of life at least

    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      28·
      5 个月前

      It will severely suck very, very soon. As soon as they destabilize govs enough to get away with severe abuse of info.

      Edit: they are destabilizing the ahit out of them quickly. This world is now a nightmare and not worth living in. But yeah, let’s criminalize abortions for kids who parents can’t afford them so they can be condemned to evergrowing poverty, shittier qualities of life, and depression. Yay!

    • Commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      61·
      5 个月前

      The quality of life is already fucked, and that’s what caused those people to rally behind current regimes who promised to fix everything using whatever opportunistic buzzwords like immigrants or national volk, turning to reaction.

      • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        5 个月前

        I mean the lack of privacy directly fucking them over. They have already proven to be unable to extrapolate actions leading to consequences beyond like 1 or 2 steps.

  • Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    431·
    5 个月前

    Most people have been trained from a young age to value convenience over basically everything else. People also don’t like to step out of their comfort zone, and not having social media is seen by some as a social taboo and as isolationary by some.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
      171·
      5 个月前

      Most people have been trained from a young age to value convenience over basically everything else.

      This is the deal. Yes. People, at least here in the US, equate personal liberty with convenience; which is why you saw people willing to kidnap governors over being forced to wear a facemask, or attacking Red Lobster employees for being slow in bringing another basket of cheese biscuits.

      Also why dead kids aren’t enough to get real progress on gun control.

      I think when these tariffs really roll downhill and the supply chain is reconfigured within the next two years, the real and permanent impacts of Donald’s cavalier and reckless economic policies will be in full effect.

    • Randelung@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 个月前

      I have trouble dating. People keep asking me how I expect to date without Instagram.

      Fuck this timeline.

      • TheCriticalMember@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        5 个月前

        We’re pretty much at the point where you can’t even expect to get a job without some form of social media presence. I hate it. I used to be able to google myself and find literally nothing.

      • pfizer_dose@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 个月前

        Yep, inter-socially policed techno fascism is here to stay. I haven’t had a cellphone for 2 years. The amount of objective problems this causes in my life is somewhere between negligible to none. The amount of social problems this causes me is endless - people become personally offended that they can’t demand to chat with me at their liberty.

    • potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
      341·
      5 个月前

      I’ve tried helping some spicy leftist groups and I’m still floored by how little the groups of people care who should absolutely know better. They will talk a big game but when it actually comes to implementation everyone immediately goes all “nothing to hide” like their years of constant guillotine reacts and memes won’t be pulled out in court the second they try to argue entrapment against some bullshit ci/undercover op.

      I don’t think many people realize how aggressive a digital search warrant can get if you or someone dumber than you fucks around and finds that main character energy. At the end of the day you gotta absolutely minimize the amount of data that’s retained long term on systems.

      • pfizer_dose@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 个月前

        Yep it’s frustrating. The convenience argument doesn’t hold true anymore either. There was once a time where encrypted messaging services and self-hosted solutions were much trickier to on-board. That’s not the case anymore and even with the ability to just download and launch some software that does all this for you people still choose oppressive and unsafe technologies / providers.

  • Embargo@lemmy.zip
    14·
    5 个月前

    My boss literally said this to me yesterday. He was also outwardly concerned when I told him I closed my Facebook account and used a VPN.