I am probably the least paranoid person on the web - Edit 2
Before modification by ironclad at 29/04/2011 02:03:15 PM
...and it hasn't backfired at me even once in the last ten years. I find the recent worry about privacy to be a bit silly, to be honest.
Nope. I mean, if people rang my phone all the time or showed up on my door step, yes, that would freak me out. Do I care that relative strangers see pics of me, know what movies I saw and music I bought? No.
maybe my number and exact address, financial data obviously. I am fine with sharing pretty much anything else, given the right person is asking.
That's how I see it too.
Well, they can use it to send me spam and adds about things I may be interested in, but that's about it, I suppose. So, I don't see the big threat here.
Edit: of course I am not talking financial informations here. Security when doing online shopping etc. is super important but I didn't count that under Privacy because it's obviously legal information only the involved parties have to know.
I don't. It's theirs and their decision. Well, people who are somewhere with me might end up with their pics on my "friends only" facebook. They'll live.
I dunno.
Nope. Even if I have nothing to hide they have no business snooping around on my personal files on my comp. Sharing things I choose online is not the same as the things I have in my folders on my laptop.
As far as I know German providers do keep data so the police can retain them for such reasons. That's alright, I guess.
Can't say I spent hours contemplating that
1. Do you care about your privacy?
Nope. I mean, if people rang my phone all the time or showed up on my door step, yes, that would freak me out. Do I care that relative strangers see pics of me, know what movies I saw and music I bought? No.
2. Do you avoid sharing things online to increase your privacy?
maybe my number and exact address, financial data obviously. I am fine with sharing pretty much anything else, given the right person is asking.
3. What do you think of the argument: "I've got nothing to hide anyway."
That's how I see it too.
4. What do you think is the worst that can happen with your personal information?
Well, they can use it to send me spam and adds about things I may be interested in, but that's about it, I suppose. So, I don't see the big threat here.
Edit: of course I am not talking financial informations here. Security when doing online shopping etc. is super important but I didn't count that under Privacy because it's obviously legal information only the involved parties have to know.
5. How do you use other people's information online?
I don't. It's theirs and their decision. Well, people who are somewhere with me might end up with their pics on my "friends only" facebook. They'll live.
6. What would happen if Google was bought by a Chinese company?
I dunno.
7. Do you think that ISPs should be forced to do deep packet inspection on your data, to combat child porn?
Nope. Even if I have nothing to hide they have no business snooping around on my personal files on my comp. Sharing things I choose online is not the same as the things I have in my folders on my laptop.
8. Do you think that ISPs should be forced to retain data for over a year? To combat terrorism.
As far as I know German providers do keep data so the police can retain them for such reasons. That's alright, I guess.
9. Do you ever think about the fact that a great number of repressive regimes would have never imagined the vast wealth of private information people are currently freely sharing online?
Can't say I spent hours contemplating that