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You walk in and your neighbor is working the cash register. Now he tells everyone you know. All you’ve done is try to obtain privacy, but you can’t walk into

You walk in and your neighbor is working the cash register. Now he tells everyone you know. All you’ve done is try to obtain privacy, but you can’t walk into the shop and demand that your neighbor shouldn’t be there. The “expectation of privacy” is really a hope that you’ve marked your identity well enough, which is really the same thing you do online.

Enginerrrd 7y ago
>You walk in and your neighbor is working the cash register. This is a total fantasy. 1. If I was concerned about it, I probably would have noticed before entering that he was there. 2. If I knew him, I'd probably know where he worked and could avoid him. 3. If I didn't catch myself in time, I could walk in and buy something mundane, or nothing at all, or a gift card. 4. If I was really concerned, I'd go the next town over. 5. There's a massive difference between taking a very low probability risk of being identified multiplied by further low probabilities of it being spread notable, remembered, and spread around, and a 100% chance of being categorically identified and logged by an automated system.