...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?
This mostly refers to the people who make sure their pic is nowhere online, nor their real name etc. It's their choice, of course, but I don't get it. I always find it makes them sound a bit more important than they actually are.
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?
Why would they steal my identity? To do what? They don't even have enough info about me to do that.
Insurance, gene type? Huh? Explain, please.
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.
No, I know who to trust. As I said, it worked for ten years now.
That's how I see it too.
I think you are rather a bit naive about what people can do with your information.
Most certainly. But I always preferred being naive over being too careful and mistrusting. Works for me.
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.
I'll be fine, I have been for a while now.
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.
Yeah, didn't think of that at first, because OF COURSE any information that could bring me financial harm should be absolutely kept safe.
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.
Yeah, they can get a bit annoying but that's about it. As it is I don't even get all that much spam, especially not on Facebook. Facebook and Avertisers is a topic that's always exaggerated, mostly by people who aren't even on Facebook.
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?
Because I am fine with them looking through my bookmarks if that makes them catch a terrorist sometime (to use a bit of exaggeration myself, there is a limit here somewhere, of course).
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Privacy
- 29/04/2011 09:55:35 AM
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Privacy, or, why I don't get to have fun on the web.
- 29/04/2011 11:05:55 AM
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I'm not particularly good at thinking up all the ways to abuse private information
- 29/04/2011 02:56:03 PM
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I am probably the least paranoid person on the web
- 29/04/2011 11:23:45 AM
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What does paranoia have to do with privacy concerns?
- 29/04/2011 03:04:06 PM
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Because I don't think anyone's after me
- 29/04/2011 03:17:01 PM
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I always feel like... somebody's watching me... </end uncredited Michael Jackson loop>
- 30/04/2011 12:19:34 AM
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