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What are the consequences? I guess I don't understand them either

• maxxxxx 8y ago
  One consequence is that your personal data gets sold to whoever wants to pay for it. In the long run a serious consequence will be that all the data they collect could be used by a dictatorship to suppress opposition. I am sure Hitler and Stalin would have been very happy with the data Google and Facebook have. Once you have full-scale surveillance and the means to analyze the data in a country any kind of political opposition will be very hard.
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• WD-42 8y ago
  Snowden put it pretty eloquently: Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. I think people understand at some level that there is something wrong with companies collecting enormous amounts of data on them even if the immediate consequences are hard to describe.