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> Privacy for non-bad behavior is a temporary measure to allow people to practice it until everyone decides that it's not bad. One other aspect of privacy is t
by throwaway34241 7y ago
> Privacy for non-bad behavior is a temporary measure to allow people to practice it until everyone decides that it's not bad.
One other aspect of privacy is that it's harder for people with power to control other people's (private) behavior. For example, if all location information was public, employees would be much more likely to face repercussions at work for interviewing at other companies. You can make it illegal but it's hard to prove and will certainly still happen, so privacy is more effective. It's the same sort of reasoning behind secret ballots.