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I don't think I'm really paranoid about my personal information. I remember a time when everyone's name, phone number, and address were published in a large whi
by cookiecaper 11y ago
I don't think I'm really paranoid about my personal information. I remember a time when everyone's name, phone number, and address were published in a large white book and distributed to every home in the metro area. I think a lot of the hyperventilation about that stuff is a little over the top.
However, I draw the line at biological data. That is permanent, irrevocable, unchangeable personal information that no one really has a right to. It's not like you can just go unlisted, change your number, or move to avoid the heat. It's a basic component of your being. That data should be closely guarded. It creeps me out that some gyms have started using the little fingerprint scanners to verify access. I don't travel that frequently, but I wouldn't get PreCheck because I want to keep that personal biological information private.
- jessriedel 11y agoI actually don't care about any of that info. I'm just annoyed about the principle that the these sorts of end-arounds are allowed.
- sokoloff 11y agoPhilosophically, I agree, but it's a weak point of agreement. I've already been fingerprinted multiple times for the armed services, for background checks for financial services jobs, for pilot authorization to fly into the DC SFRA and land at the MD/DC-3 airports, and maybe a few other reasons. My fingerprints are already in multiple databases and I don't have particular concern about giving them one more time.
- morgante 11y agoI personally don't see how something which I'm constantly leaving behind to strangers can be considered private data. It's personal but I don't think it's private.