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I wonder if your friend would object if you asked to browse through his email right then and there, or download it all as an archive to look through later. I i
by newman8r 8y ago
I wonder if your friend would object if you asked to browse through his email right then and there, or download it all as an archive to look through later.
I imagine most people wouldn't really want to do that, even if they believed they had nothing to hide and use apps like kayak.
Might be a good way to make a point (or maybe not, but it's interesting to think about).
- baxtr 8y agoInteresting thought. He would have said no I guess. But maybe the apt question is to ask if he’d hand it to a total stranger running by.
- newman8r 8y agoYes that's also a very good question. I think if you combine the two, you get "would you prefer to give email access to your friend or to a random stranger" - it's actually a tough question for me to answer. I guess maybe it's like how you're comfortable talking about a medical issue with a doctor you've never met before, but you wouldn't necessarily want to discuss it with friends.
- bspammer 8y agoFor it to be a fair comparison you need to be offering them something of value. They're making a choice to sacrifice privacy for convenience but in your example it's sacrificing privacy for no benefit.