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No you haven’t, not to any meaningful degree.
by JimmieMcnulty 4y ago
No you haven’t, not to any meaningful degree.
- Woeps 4y agoWho are you to decide what is "to any meaningful degree" for others?
- JimmieMcnulty 4y agoA guy who cares about evaluating the likelihood and significance of an event taking place. I'm not value judging this, I'm just trying to determine if it's worth reacting to, and based on the number of folks effected, the severity of the impact, and the frequency, privacy violations seem pretty minor overall as a threat, not worth considering within my personal attack surface.
- Woeps 4y ago"I'm not value judging this, I'm just trying to determine if it's worth reacting to" Sorry... but some nice contradiction you have there. I think your "algorithm" might be a bit off ;)
- JimmieMcnulty 4y agoContradiction?
- Woeps 4y agocontradiction: An inconsistency or discrepancy.
- seanw444 4y agoYet. That's the whole point.
- FireSparrowWeld 4y agoIt's kind of ridiculous to anticipate an event that's never happened before.
- jen20 4y agoI see you have never worked in the insurance industry then.
- seanw444 4y agoThere have already been examples given here. And also, that's absolutely untrue. Things have firsts.
- FireSparrowWeld 4y agoThose examples are isolated incidents and not any indication of a larger risk.
- WHATDOESIT 4y ago
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- simonw 4y agoGo tell that to the population of Germany in the 1930s.
- FireSparrowWeld 4y agoThey didn't have a "Germany in the 1930s" example like we do now, so it's different.
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- WHATDOESIT 4y agoNo forced sterilization of women based on race/class/other background, for example? No exclusion from education, medical care etc? Surely? Anyways, something like 40% of the EU citizens lived through communism, so it's not exactly unusual.
- FireSparrowWeld 4y agoIt's sad that these conversations devolve into, "A lack of privacy actually means anything generally bad that I can think of." Kind of makes it seem like privacy itself can't stand on its own as meritous, and needs to be propped up by overgeneralizations and FUD.
- WHATDOESIT 4y agoTo me, privacy is first and foremost protection. That's from my upbringing, I guess. It's hard to argue with anything other to people who don't seem like they care about their privacy at all - and I get it, some people just don't care and trust their government etc. What else would you bring up to these people other than the bad things that have already happened due to less privacy than possible?
- JimmieMcnulty 4y agoYou could try bringing up relevant situations where a breach of privacy was the proximate cause of a systemic negative consequence on a large scale, rather than irrelevant-but-also-terrible things that weren't directly caused by a lack of privacy.
- WHATDOESIT 4y agoYou mean like when the KGB murdered my grandparent based on class origin and corporation ownership? Or the time when the Gestapo did the same to my great-grandparent, also based on ownership of the same corporation? To me, it seems like there are much longer periods of problems than periods of peaceful life. Only 30 years out of the last 100 were in lived in relative freedom here, and still excesses are happening today. Protect yourselves people. Nobody will return your health and life back once an excess happens to you.