What does paranoia have to do with privacy concerns?
Helene Send a noteboard - 29/04/2011 03:04:06 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.
Why is it silly?
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.
Do you care when people steal your information and use it for identity theft? Do you care when you have to pay more insurance because you happen to have a certain gene type?
maybe my number and exact address, financial data obviously. I am fine with sharing pretty much anything else, given the right person is asking.
You are a perfect target for spear phishing.
That's how I see it too.
I think you are rather a bit naive about what people can do with your 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.
There is a lot more possible than that. But I understand why you would not see it as a big threat if that's the worst thing you believe can happen. I think you are probably better off getting a bit more educated on the subject.
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.
That's also privacy related.
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.
Friends only, and all advertisers.
I dunno.
It wouldn't be pretty.
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.
DPI is what they do on your data traffic, not on your 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.
Why is that alright?
Can't say I spent hours contemplating that 
Although I wouldn't advice hours and hours of contemplation, perhaps a little more awareness probably wouldn't hurt you.
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