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No, the assumption is that you are voluntarily handing over your data. It's more like, if you are in a cafeteria and a friend comes by, then you two begin shout

No, the assumption is that you are voluntarily handing over your data. It's more like, if you are in a cafeteria and a friend comes by, then you two begin shouting from one end to the room to the other and at the end demand everybody there to forget whatever you said. Not that any decent person wouldn't... but is still poor judgement and lack of common sense on your part. To follow with your gun analogy, it's like walking into a police station in a trench coat with your hands in your pockets and yielling "Everybody freeze!" Any decent/professional cop there should strive to put you down without resorting to lethal force... but the situation is a little more nuanced than right vs wrong.

eveningcoffee 11y ago
Yeah, I am like, hey dude, follow me, I totally want it. I just came out so that everyone can follow me. No I did not, I just want to buy some milk, all right? This is just how messed up American mind is about privacy. (comment to myself, do not comment on hacker news after having few beers and watching LCK) I gave you a good example - you can not do what ever it is possible to do. Hey, I have a gun, I can totally shoot you. Boom! No I can not, every other person gets unhappy (all right, maybe not all of them). So how hard is it to transfer this knowledge into another situation? The fact that I am in your range does not mean you can shoot me, right? The fact that I am visible to you does not mean that you can create a database of all my doings. There is major difference between, oh, I saw that dude on the street and I have followed that dude 10 years every day, I know every place he have been.
- crpatino 11y ago
  > The fact that I am in your range does not mean you can shoot me, right? Wrong. The fact that you are in my range does mean that I could shoot you if I wish. It does not mean that I will do so, but you do not get to decide. What is to stop me, your blind faith in the eventual justice of the cosmic balance? If you want to make less likely that people shoots you, try to step out of the typical ranges of people you don't trust. It is so sad, because it means you cannot go anymore where all the everymen want to go.

eveningcoffee 11y ago

Yeah, I am like, hey dude, follow me, I totally want it. I just came out so that everyone can follow me. No I did not, I just want to buy some milk, all right? This is just how messed up American mind is about privacy. (comment to myself, do not comment on hacker news after having few beers and watching LCK) I gave you a good example - you can not do what ever it is possible to do. Hey, I have a gun, I can totally shoot you. Boom! No I can not, every other person gets unhappy (all right, maybe not all of them). So how hard is it to transfer this knowledge into another situation? The fact that I am in your range does not mean you can shoot me, right? The fact that I am visible to you does not mean that you can create a database of all my doings. There is major difference between, oh, I saw that dude on the street and I have followed that dude 10 years every day, I know every place he have been.

crpatino 11y ago
> The fact that I am in your range does not mean you can shoot me, right? Wrong. The fact that you are in my range does mean that I could shoot you if I wish. It does not mean that I will do so, but you do not get to decide. What is to stop me, your blind faith in the eventual justice of the cosmic balance? If you want to make less likely that people shoots you, try to step out of the typical ranges of people you don't trust. It is so sad, because it means you cannot go anymore where all the everymen want to go.