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This sounds a lot like the the "I have nothing to hide so it doesn't matter who has my data argument," in which case here are a number of resources discussing w
by authoritarian 7y ago
This sounds a lot like the the "I have nothing to hide so it doesn't matter who has my data argument," in which case here are a number of resources discussing why privacy matters and why you should care even if you have 'nothing to hide':
https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matter...
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565& https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565&
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_pr.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/im-being-followed-how-google-151-and-104-other-companies-151-are-tracking-me-on-the-web/253758/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/im-be...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-even-law-abiding-people-should-oppose-surveillance https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-even-law-abidi...
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/ https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-i...
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/surveillance-you-may-have-nothing-hide http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/surveillance-you-may-have-nothing...
https://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-the-wrong-way-to-think-about-surveillance/ https://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-is-innately-flawed-nothing-to-hide-does-not-exist/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-is-innately-flawed-not...
https://mashable.com/2013/06/13/julian-sanchez-nsa/ https://mashable.com/2013/06/13/julian-sanchez-nsa/
https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/why-nothing-to-hide-misrepresents-online-privacy/ https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/why-nothing-to...
Also, since you mention anonymization, many people have demonstrated how trivial it is to de-anonymize "anonymized data" particularly if you have access to multiple data sets
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak09.pdf https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak09.pdf
http://palms.princeton.edu/system/files/Quantification+of+De-anonymization+Risks+in+Social+Networks.pdf http://palms.princeton.edu/system/files/Quantification+of+De...
http://www.yongyeol.com/papers/nilizadeh-deanon-2014.pdf http://www.yongyeol.com/papers/nilizadeh-deanon-2014.pdf
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3dkxyw/tracking-people-on-the-dark-web-can-be-trivial-researchers-claim https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3dkxyw/tracking-people-on...
https://www.astonzhang.com/papers/social_deanony.pdf https://www.astonzhang.com/papers/social_deanony.pdf
- pmarreck 7y agoYou actually forgot my favorite one on this topic: https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.htm... You're arguing something different. I'm arguing that a sufficiently anonymized version of my data is not demonstrably harmful. You're arguing that privacy in general is important, which I would not dispute.